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Hokai Box

Japanese Taishō Red Lacquered Hokai Box with Brass Accents and Original Rope
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Taisho period Hokai box from the early 20th century, with red lacquer, ornate brass
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

Japanese Lacquer Hokai Box, 19th Century
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a good example of a traditional Japanese Hokai shell storage box for the Kai-awase game
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Japanese Meiji Period Hokai Lidded Box with Brass Accents and Original Rope
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Meiji period hokai box from the 19th century with black lacquer, brass accents and
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Decorative Boxes

Materials

Brass

A Japanese Meiji Period Black Lacquer Hokai Lidded Box with Brass Mounts
Located in San Francisco, CA
four splayed supports. Hokai boxes became prominent in Japan during the Edo and Meiji periods to store
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Decorative Boxes

Materials

Lacquer

Pair of Large Antique Japanese Hokai Lacquer Boxes
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Japanese lacquer lidded Hokai boxes with chased brass hardware and original ropes. Hokai
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Pair of Large Antique Japanese Hokai Lacquer Boxes
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Japanese lacquered lidded Hokai boxes with chased brass hardware and original ropes
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Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

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Pair of Antique Japanese Hokai Lacquer Boxes
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of antique Japanese Hokai storage boxes. These are finished in black lacquer
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Antique Japanese Hokai Lacquer Shell Box with Brass Accents, Late 19th Century
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Japanese Hokai lidded shell box with black lacquer wood and brass accents from the late Edo to
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Lacquer Hokai Shell Box, Meiji Period, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
A lacquer Hokai shell box, circa 1890. Bronze trim and black lacquer with traditional decoration on
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Antique 1890s Japanese Meiji Lacquer

Materials

Wood

Japanese Hokai Lacquer Box
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a good example of a Japanese Hokai box that was used to store shells for the traditional
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Late 20th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Lacquer

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Lacquer, Paint

Pair of Antique Japanese Hokai Lacquer Boxes
Located in Atlanta, GA
Hokai boxes are transitionally used in Japan to store and carry shells for Kai-awase game in Edo
Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Brass

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Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An antique Japanese Satsuma covered box in the form of Hokai, a portable footed box used by Daimyo
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Pair of Black Lacquer Hokai
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hokai boxes were used to store shells which were used a game pieces.
Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Brass

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Hokai Box For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the hokai box you’re looking for. Each hokai box for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, lacquer and brass. Your living room may not be complete without a hokai box — find older editions for sale from the 19th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A hokai box, designed in the style, is generally a popular piece of furniture.

How Much is a Hokai Box?

Prices for a hokai box can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $915 and can go as high as $4,000, while the average can fetch as much as $1,825.

Finding the Right Asian Art and Furniture for You

From Japanese handmade earthenware pottery, originating circa 14,500 B.C. and adorned with elaborate corded patterns known as jōmon, to natural elm case pieces and storage cabinets built in Qing dynasty–era China to mid-century Thai rice-paper charcoal rubbings, antique and vintage Asian art and furniture make for wonderful additions to all kinds of contemporary interiors.

Eastern elements elevate any home’s decor. Introduce zen sensibility to your living room, dining room and bedroom with the neutral color palettes and the natural materials such as rattan, bamboo and elm that we typically associate with traditional Asian furniture. Decorative handwoven embroideries and textiles originating from India and elsewhere on the continent, which can be draped over a bed or sofa or used as a wall hanging, can be as practical as they are functional, just as you wouldn’t seek out Japanese room-divider screens — often decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile — merely for privacy.

With everything from blanket chests to lighting fixtures to sculptures and carvings, it’s easy to tastefully bring serenity to your living space by looking to the treasures for which the East has long been known.

For British-born furniture designer Andrianna Shamaris, the Japanese concept of beauty in imperfection isn’t limited to her Wabi Sabi collection. She embraces it in her New York City apartment as well. In the living area, for instance, she retained the fireplace’s original black marble while swathing its frame and the rest of the room in bright white.

“We left the fireplace very clean and wabi-sabi, so that it blended into the wall,” says Shamaris, who further appointed the space with a hand-carved antique daybed whose plush pillows are upholstered in antique textiles from the Indonesian island of Sumba.

In the growing antique and vintage Asian art and furniture collection on 1stDibs, find ceramics from China, antiquities from Cambodia and a vast range of tables, seating, dining chairs and other items from Japan, India and other countries.