The lacquer dishes variously decorated in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e, the first embellished with uguisu (bush warblers) in flight over dwellings set within a Chinese mountainous landscape, a waterfall, pine trees and flowering cherry trees in the foreground, with details highlighted in kirikane and inlaid coloured horn and shell, within a narrow band of formalised ho-o (phoenixes) amid clouds, the underside of rich nashiji, unsigned, 24.8cm (9¾in) diam.; the sakazuki (sake cup) decorated with a large chrysanthemum head, the underside lacquered with okibirame on a red-lacquer ground, unsigned, 14.3cm (5 5/8in) diam; the gold-lacquer kobako decorated in gold, silver and copper takamaki-e with a ho-o (phoenix) in flight before kiri (paulownia) branches on a ground of nashiji, the design extending over the sides, the interior of the box applied with gold-lacquer edges and silver, the interior fitted with a red velvet lining and a removable velvet cushion; unsigned, (3)