Medicine-Container (Inrō) Shaped Box with Sword-Guard (Tsuba) Design
1500–1632
- Medium
- Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques, and with sprinkled raden (mother-of-pearl) flakes
- Dimensions
- 11.1 x 8.5 x 4.6 cm (4 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 1 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- Boxes
Tags
Japanese