A KUTANI SUZURIBAKO decorated in various coloured enamels with a formal river landscape scene of a scholar crossing a bridge, which leads to a temple complex by the mountain side, framed within rectangular alternating bands of patterns, including key fret and karakusa scrolls, stylized clouds and dragons painted on the sides, the interior depicting a minogame crawling on a rock by a stream and karakusa scrolls around the ink-well, the inner lid bearing a kirin beside a prunus, bamboo and pine tree, gazing at a ho-o bird in flight (minor flaking, interior fitments lacking), 19th century