Lacquered in gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e and embellished with inlays of silver, pewter and iridescent shell against a brown-lacquer ground with hirame and nashiji highlights, each box of rounded rectangular form with a flat cover, the writing box decorated with plovers in flight and on a rocky shoreline, the sails of ships visible in the distance through low-hanging clouds, the underside of the cover with a thatched cottage under pine trees by a brush fence and autumn grasses strewn with cobwebs, the box fitted with a removable tray for holding tools and supporting a rectangular ink stone lacquered on the sides in fundame, and a circular gilt-copper waterdropper, the tray decorated with ferns and bush clover; the writing box decorated on the cover with a writing table supporting a writing box, brush, and albums beneath a pine tree on a rocky shore, plovers in flight overhead, the underside of the cover decorated with a continuation of the design with an ivy-covered pine tree on a sandy shoreline and plovers in flight beneath a full moon among rolling clouds, pewter rims