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A FINE JAPANESE LACQUER TEBAKO (ACCESSORY BOX) SIGNED IN GOLD LACQUER TO THE BASE SHORYU (SHORYU SEGAWA) AND WITH KAKIHAN , MEIJI - TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY) The deep box with flush-fitting cover, finely decorated in multiple complex lacquer techniques including gold, silver, red and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e , hirame , togidashi and mura-nashiji, and inlaid in various metals including gold, silver and shakudo , with the warrior Minamoto no Yoshie on horseback with attendants looking back at a flock of wild geese, autumn grasses bending in the wind behind them, the sides with further warriors beside rocks inlaid in uchikomi (nuggets of gold), pine trees and grasses, the interior with clouds and grasses, silver rims 28.8 x 23.5 x 15.7 cm. (11 3/8 x 9.2/8 x 6 ¼ in.) Provenance H.R.H. The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900-1974), possibly acquired during his 1929 visit to Japan to confer the order of the Garter on the Showa Emperor (Emperor Hirohito) (1901-1989).