Writing Box with Decoration of Moon and Autumn Grasses, and with an assortment of writing implements including an ink stone, a metal water dropper, two covered brushes, and two covered knives (for correcting mistakes)

Negoro ware; red and black lacquer on wood

Maki-e designs in gold and silver lacquers on nashiji lacquer ground

Iron or bronze with decoration applied in gold; with small cartouche on the cover reading "Kingakuji" and a maker's mark in gold on the base; the interior of box and cover lined with sheet gold, the linings cursorily engraved with landscapes

Lacquered wood: wooden core with orange-red lacquer over black lacquer (over a paper substrate); with metal fittings

Lacquer

Maki-e lacquer;

Lacquer on wood with decoration in wakasa-nuri (layered lacquer and gold foil over a thick base-coat impressed with various shapes and sprinkled with raden [mother-of-pearl] flakes), gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) techniques, and with tsuishu (carved red lacquer), malachite, and carnelian inlays; stone and metal fittings

Maki-e designs in gold and silver on nashi-ji lacquer ground

Maki-e lacquer

Lacquer on wood with decoration in black and gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques; shakudo (copper-gold alloy) fittings

Lacquer on wood

Lacquer on wood