A LACQUER AND BAMBOO SHO INSTRUMENT, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), fashioned with bamboo pipes of varying lengths, wind box of lacquered in nashiji with gold phoenix and paulownia in takamaki-e and with oval metal mouthpiece, silver banding around the pipes cast in the form of a bamboo branch, two silver rectangular covers for apertures in pipes, one missing, silk brocade bag-- 18 3/8 in. long