Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The box bearing a kinji ground and shaped as a fan decorated in two shades of gold, silver, and red takamaki-e, and embellished with inlays of aogai (mother-of-pearl), with Seiobo looking at herself in a mirror held by her attendant below an elaborate Chinese-style lantern, the figures' faces, hair, and hands inlaid in silver and shakudo, the goddess's headress in gold, the sides of the box decorated with a bee and a dragonfly alighting on nanten (nandina) berries, the removable inner tray with a Chinese-style table supporting an ink stone and a writing brush beside an arrangment of flowers in a vase lacquered to simulate bronze, the ground mokume-nuri with a Gyobu-nashiji edge, the interiors nashiji lacquer 4 3/4in (12.1cm) long