Medicine-Container (Inrō) Shaped Box with Sword-Guard (Tsuba) Design

Wood

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, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with glazed-ceramic, ivory, mother-of-pearl, coral, and malachite inlays; stone and metal fittings

Bronze

Rattan

Carved ivory

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and originally with inlays [now lost]; stone and metal fittings

Rosewood with metal (brass and copper?) fittings, the interior of the box lined with silk damask

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) technique

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Silver

Red lacquer

Watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard