Jikan Mebun (Ganbun) (active 19th century)An inlaid stacking boxEdo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe two-tiered rectangular wood box decorated with ants and young bamboo shoots in kanshitsu (dried-lacquer) inlays of pewter, copper, sentoku, shakudo and shibuichi, all against a background of undecorated wood, the edges of the box black lacquer, signed in a rectangular lacquer reserve Jikan Mebun 8 x 5 3/4 x 4 1/4in (20.3 x 14.6 x 10.8cm)注脚PublishedStephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no.64