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Panels of a writing board

Unrecorded maker

ca. 721–705 BCE · Ivory

Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

Unrecorded maker

first half 17th century · Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”) on black lacquer ground

Writing Desk (Bundai) with Landscape and Geese

Unrecorded maker

17th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, cutout gold- and silver-foil application

Set of Knife Handles (Kozuka) with Emblems of the Five Seasonal Festivals

Gotō Kenjō (d. 1663)

late 16th–early 18th century · Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, silver, copper

Set of hexagonal stacked boxes

Unrecorded maker

18th century · Black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

Set of Five Writing Boxes with Japanese Globeflowers, Plum Blossoms, and Interlaced Roundels

Unrecorded maker

late 18th–early 19th century · Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e and applied gold foil on nashiji ground

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Woodcutter

Hon'ami Kōetsu (d. 1637)

18th or early 19th century · Gold maki-e on black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Screen, Robe Rack, and Shell-Matching Game Set

Unrecorded maker

second half of the 19th century · Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, red lacquer on black ground

Set of ten writing boxes with seasonal designs

Uematsu Hōbi (d. 1933)

early 20th century · Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cut-out gold and silver application

Writing Box (Suzuribako) and Writing Table (Bundai) with Pines at Takasago and Sumiyoshi

Yukio Yukio II (d. 1929)

early 20th century · Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, cut-out gold foil on nashiji ground, silver inlay, silver fittings

Inkstone Box (Suzuribako) and Document Box (Ryōshibako)

Iizuka Hōsai II (d. 1934)

1923 · Timber bamboo, rattan, lacquer, and gold powder

Writing box (Suzuribako) with Ginkgo Leaves

Murose Kazumi (d. 9999)

2015 · Lacquered wood with gold and silver togidashimaki-e, hiramaki-e and mother-of-pearl inlay