A Japanese gold lacquer rectangular box, slightly domed cover and tray to the interior, decorated in hiramakie and takamakie with a fisherman in a boat below a hut in a wooded river landscape, the sides with river landscape scenes, the tray with two bijin playing shuttlecock on a terrace with a third kneeling beside a box, all on a kinji ground, the interior of nashiji, metal rims (chips and cracks) -- 5¼in.wide.

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A Japanese gold lacquer rectangular box, slightly domed cover and tray to the interior, decorated in hiramakie and takamakie with a fisherman in a boat below a hut in a wooded river landscape, the sides with river landscape scenes, the tray with two bijin playing shuttlecock on a terrace with a third kneeling beside a box, all on a kinji ground, the interior of nashiji, metal rims (chips and cracks) -- 5¼in.wide.
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