Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century Of standard rectangular form with inrobuta (flush-fitting lid), entirely covered in gold lacquer and decorated in predominantly gold takamaki-e with details executed in high-relief inlay of silver and gold, depicting on the lid three waterfowl on a meandering stream rendered in tsukegaki (raised lines) flanked by flowering tachibana trees and overarching pine-laden branches, the scene filling the top surface and repeated with minor variations around its four sides, the inside of the lid with a sumptuous mansion with an open veranda set on the shores of a mountain stream, sheltered beneath flowering plum inlaid in coral and silver relief, rising towards a full moon in cut gold foil on the top, one of the wood panels of the veranda embellished with a solitary leaping shishi of gold high-relief inlay, the interior with a fitted detachable tray, similarly gold-lacquered with a gated thatched shioya (salt evaporation shed) on the left and in the foreground two moored boats beneath a windblown pine tree on the desolate shore, two sides of the box with a gilt metal mount in the form of a chrysanthemum applied with a loose ring for the silk cord, the underside of the tray, box and interior of rich nashiji; unsigned. 13.2cm x 33.5cm x 40.8cm (5 3/8in x 13 3/16in x 16in). (3).