A KO-BAKO OF IRREGULAR OUTLINE, the cover shaped as a Court lady in Heian period kimono holding a poem paper, probably Murasaki Shikibu, authoress of Genji Monogatari, in hiramakie and gold and silver kirigane, the sides of the box and cover decorated with a Kusudama, and flowering branches of aoi on a fundame ground, with an interior fitted tray decorated with a mist-shrouded flowering plum tree behind a brushwood fence in red and gold hiramakie and kirigane, the interior and bases in gold nashiji (slight restoration), unsigned, mid-19th Century,