A lacquer suzuribako (writing box)


Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th/ late 19th centuryRectangular and lacquered in several shades of gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi-e and kinji, with embellishments of gold foil and hirame with a weeping cherry tree and bridge over a rushing stream, the interior with a tsuitate (standing screen) decorated with a heron, a picture book, a nyoi scepter, a fan, and a handscroll in sumi-e togidashi maki-e, gold hiramaki-e and aogai against a bright nashiji ground, fitted with a rectangular inkstone and water-dropper 10 x 8 1/8 x 1 7/8in (25.3 x 20.6 x 4.7cm)