In the form typically associated with lacquerers in the Rinpa style, the rectangular box with a lid with bevelled edges, held in place on the box by two gold-lacquered horizontal members on the reverse, the box supported on four bracket feet, the whole covered in black lacquer and decorated on the lid with a dragonfly and pea plant executed in pewter, glazed ceramic, shell, and dull gold low takamaki-e; the reverse of the lid with three fish and a crab inlaid in shell, horn, and other materials, with waves and seaweed executed in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, gold hirame, and muranashiji; the interior of the box with a partially gold-lacquered suzuri (ink stone) and a silvered-copper suiteki (water-dropper) in the form of an aubergine; the other surfaces either plain black lacquer or plain lacquer with gold hirame; with a wooden storage box. (6).