Box-Style Netsuke with Triple-Crest Design

Unknown artist

Mid Edo period, 18th century

Lacquer on wood with decoration in sumiaka (exposed cloth ground) and gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques and with gold and silver inlays; metal fittings

Arthur M. Sackler Museum

A small, rectangular, lidded box is decorated with gold speckles and a red band. Three circular emblems are affixed to the lid. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes; Gift of Elaine Ehrenkranz