Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th century The rounded rectangular writing box decorated in gold takamaki-e and gold, black, and red hiramaki-e with highlights of hirame and kinpun with Choryo (Zhang Liang) being lifted from the waters by a dragon after he had jumped in the river to retrieve Kosekiko's (Huangshigong's) shoe, the underside of the cover with a rocky landscape with farmers and a distant pavilion, and a Tokugawa family crest, the interior of the box decorated with a mandarin duck beneath a pine tree and a waterfall, fitted with a rectangular inkstone and a gilt-metal water dropper formed as a leafy gourd, the rims pewter With a wood tomobako storage box 8 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/4in (20.3 x 19 x 3.1cm)