Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th centuryOf nearly square section fitted with two wide drawers and a single deeper drawer containing silver hinged box engraved with pine trees, the box decorated on three sides with roundels containing hawks in trees or perched on rocks, the front with a hawk in a blossoming cherry tree by a stream, all in silver,ld, brown, andblack togidashi maki-e on a ground of roiro-nuri sprinkled with hirame, the remaining surface nashiji, the gilt-metal drawer pulls formed as a basket, aurd, and a rice bale, the ash cup silvered-metal and covered with a cage-like housing, the metal handle with pine-tree hinges 7 x 7 1/4 x 6 7/8in (17.7 x 18.4 x 17.4cm), box only