The squarish writing box has a fitted cover with beveled ridges. The entire surface is coated with black lacquer, on which coarse gold particles are sprinkled. In the center of the cover, a flowering cotton plant and small rocks are designed primarily in raised maki-e, combined with tsukegaki, cut gold leaf and silver studding. The inside of the cover is decorated with the design of a woven fence and autumn flowers such as thoroughwort, patrinia, pampas grass, and gentian, using the same decorative techniques. The box housed an inset kasuiban panel on the left, in which a water dropper and an ink stone are set. On the right, a rectangular box with an autumn plant design is nested. The lacquer work is minute and elaborate, a successor to the traditional techniques of the Muromachi period. This was made by a craftsman of the Igarashi school.
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