A shikishi-bako [box for square calligraphy paper] | Edo period, 17th century

A shikishi-bako [box for square calligraphy paper] 

Edo period, 17^th century

the rectangular box with overhanging cover, decorated in Koetsu style in gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, and inlaid in mother-of-pearl and lead on a black ground, depicting the entrance to the Nonomiya Shrine with a torii gate beneath a shrouded moon, among tall autumn grasses and a sedge grass fence, the interior with branch of plum blossom and a crescent moon, fundame rims

28 cm., 11⅛ in. long