STYLE OF OGAWA HARITSU (RITSUŌ, 1663-1747) An Inlaid Gold Lacquer Bunko (Document Box) Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (18618-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryProperty from the collection of Paul and Helen AnbiderSTYLE OF OGAWA HARITSU (RITSUŌ, 1663-1747)An Inlaid Gold Lacquer Bunko (Document Box) Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (18618-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryRectangular with lobed edges and sunken panels on the top and sides decorated in gold, red, and black lacquer, and inlays of glazed pottery, pewter, iridescent shell, and coral with an elaborate scene of three cranes before the gate to a Chinese palace, a blossoming plum tree in the courtyard, the tower above the gate with inset glass windows, the gate and the surrounding wall finished to resemble plaster, the edges lacquered in an ishime finish, the sides decorated with Chinese poems in low-relief, the underside of the lid deocorated with an ox at the edge of a stream on a roiro-nuri ground, with an inlaid pottery seal KanWith a wood storage box 14 7/8 x 11 1/4 x 4in (37.8 x 28.6 x 10.2cm)ExhibitedCornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, March 31-July 8, 2007, "Scattered Gold and Midnight Gloss: Japanese Lacquer from the Anbinder Collection"PublishedHerbert F. Johnson Museum, Scattered Gold and Midnight Gloss: Japanese Lacquer from the Anbinder Collection, (exhibition catalogue), Ithaca, Cornell University, 2007, p. 11.