This set of objects used for writing were advertised in a handbill for the Kagaya department store. Eight items are included: a inkstone screen, brushpot, ink holder, water dropper, brush washer, scroll weight, and paperweight. Sets such as this seem to have sold well over a long period of time: they appeared in advertising circulars from the Tempo era in the late Edo period to the early Meiji. The inkstone screen was something used to protect the ink stone from dust. The paperweight is fashioned in the form of a bat, which, with its convex-shaped body and outspread wings, is quite similar in design to the bat found on a Satsuma cut glass boat-shaped bowl.