"Koto"(Musical Instrument)-Shaped Poem Box with designs of Bugaku Dancers and Cherry Tree

Bronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and kanagai (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques; metal fittings and silk cord

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), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground) techniques and with glazed-ceramic and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; stone and lacquered-copper fittings

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration and over decoration inlaid in black and white slips

Lacquer on wood with decoration in zonsei-nuri (incised and painted lacquer) and gold utilizing the togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) technique; silk cord

Silver with parcel gilding

Stoneware with brown glaze

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

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

Lacquer on wood

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver); metal fittings and silk cord