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

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, brass chips, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques, and with silver and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; metal fittings

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and kanagai (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold); stone and metal fittings

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

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in a dark brown slip on a white slip ground

Silver

Silver

Metal

Silver

Bamboo with carved and stained surface and with brass fittings

Metal