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

Japanese

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, and with sprinkled raden (mother-of-pearl) flakes

Momoyama period, 1568-1615