A suzuribako (writing box) with scenes from the Omi Hakkei (Eight Views of Lake Biwa)Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama period (1573-1615) 16th/early 17th centuryElegantly rendered in gold hiramaki-e with an aerial view of the geese at Katata, the Shinto shrine at Karasaki, the autumn moon at Ishiyama, and other scenes on a dense gold nashiji ground heightened in kirikane, the interior of the cover showing a lush garden of willows, chrysanthemums and plum set over cranes in flight over waves, fitted with an octagonal inkstone enclosing a design of a hare and a copper water dropper in the form of a teapot, the stepped base raised on four low feet and the lobed edges fitted in pewter 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 2 1/2in (26.7 x 21.6 x 6.3cm)注脚Exhibited and PublishedEdmund J. Lewis and Joe Earle, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996, cat. no.1PublishedStephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no.3