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Japanese Bako

Antique Japanese Gyosho Bako Peddler's Chest
Located in Oakland, CA
Handsome antique Japanese Gyosho Bako Peddler's chest. Practical piece with incredible iron work
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Early 20th Century Japanese Edo Cabinets

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Iron

Fine Japanese Black and Gold Lacquer Sageju-Bako - Picnic Box
Located in PARIS, FR
-bako in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, 18th-19th century, inv. AD 529 . Japan, Meiji period
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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer

Japanese Edo Period Igarashi School Long Lacquer Box, Tanzaku-Bako
Located in Austin, TX
A stunning Japanese Edo period lacquer tanzakubako, box for poem cards, late 18th-early 19th
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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

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Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer

Japanese Antique Lacquer Maki-E Miniature Hasami-Bako with Copper Mounts
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese lacquered box with lid in the shape of a miniature Hasami-Bako (traveling chest) circa
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Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

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Copper

Miniature hokkai bako or kaioke, doll furniture replica of a traditional box
Located in PARIS, FR
Small hokkai bako or kaioke seashells game box, of circular form with its four feet, its bronzes
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer

Materials

Gold, Bronze

Intricately Carved Kamakura Lacquer Box with Botanical Design by Tamerou Ono
Located in Prahran, Victoria
A vintage Japanese Tsuzuri bako, writing box. with an unusual, deeply carved relief of Japanese
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Wood

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Kimono Art / Japanese Art / "FUMI-BAKO"
Located in Shibuya City, Tokyo
"FUMI-BAKO" by Kimono-Couture Japanese Kimono Art This Kimono Art is a creation meticulously
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Furniture

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Silk, Thread

Kimono Art / Japanese Art / "FUMI-BAKO"
Kimono Art / Japanese Art / "FUMI-BAKO"
H 12.21 in W 15.75 in D 0.6 in
Japanese Art / Kimono Art / Wall Decoration -Fumi Bako-
Located in Shibuya City, Tokyo
Japanese Kimono Art by Kimono-Couture Title:Fumi-bako This is a one-of-a-kind Kimono Art made of
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Contemporary Art

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Silk, Thread

A Pair Of Japanese Lacquer 'hakko Bako' Boxes And Covers Edo Period
Located in Paris, ile de france
A PAIR OF JAPANESE LACQUER 'HAKKO BAKO' BOXES AND COVERS EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY Of ribbed
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

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Wood

Framed Kimono Art "FUMI BAKO" by Kimono-Couture, Japanese Wall Art, Textile Art
Located in Shibuya City, Tokyo
Kimono Art "FUMI BAKO" by Kimono-Couture ・Japanese Art ・Textile Art ・Framed Wall Art 【Description
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Contemporary Art

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Zeni-Bako Box, Edo Period
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Japanese Zeni-Bako, Edo period, circa 1825.
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Jewelry Boxes

Japanese Zeni-Bako Box, Edo Period
Japanese Zeni-Bako Box, Edo Period
H 9 in W 8.25 in D 12.5 in
Japanese Zeni-Bako Box, Edo Period
Located in San Francisco, CA
An attractive Japanese hardwood Edo period Zeni-Bako with multiple drawers, a foldover top and
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Decorative Boxes

Obento-Bako 'Lunch Box', Bamboo, Japanese, Meiji Period
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Obento-Bako (Lunch Box), bamboo, Japanese, Meiji period Woven bamboo basket case, edged with black
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20th Century Japanese Folk Art More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture

Materials

Tin

Japanese Black Lacquer Tsuzuri-Bako Writing Box with Cricket and Grasses Design
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Japanese black lacquer Tsuzuri-Bako (writing box) with a delicate and whimsical design of a cricket
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Vintage 1960s Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Edo Period Suzuri Bako on Later Stand
Located in San Francisco, CA
Japanese Edo period (1603-1868) pine sea chest wth kiri wood drawers and bamboo dowels. Now on a
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture

Edo Period Suzuri Bako on Later Stand
Edo Period Suzuri Bako on Later Stand
H 18 in W 7.5 in D 8.75 in
Japanese Black Lacquer Large Document Box with Gold Maki-E Design, Meiji Period
Located in Prahran, Victoria
This Japanese black lacquer document box, known as a ryoshi- bako in Japanese is in fantastic
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Antique Japanese Hasami-Bako "Traveling Chest"
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique Japanese Hasami-Bako / traveling chest for textiles, garments, kimono. Black lacquer & gold
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

Materials

Metal, Brass

Vintage Japanese Wood Himitsu Bako Puzzle Box
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents Japanese Secret Puzzle Trick Box Hidden Drawer Vintage Wood Himitsu Bako Puzzle
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

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Wood

Japanese lacquer suzuri’bako 箱 with a cherry blossom & Chinese landscape design
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A very well-made, beautiful black lacquer rectangular suzuri’bako (writing box) with rounded
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Silver

Japanese Lacquered Maki-e Poem Box Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
1890-1900s. The box was traditionally designed to hold poem paper slips and is called Tanzaku Bako in
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer, Wood

Japanese Ko Bako
Located in New York, NY
A small portable document safe with worn black lacquer. The interior drawers exhibit kiri wood with red wiped lacquer.
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Japanese Ko Bako
Japanese Ko Bako
H 9.5 in W 10.5 in D 13.25 in
Pair Of Japanese Hakko Bako Food Boxes
Located in Sarasota, FL
This pair of Hakko Bako cylindrical food containers have a scalloped ring design and are finished
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Brass

Japanese Gilt Metal Mounted and Lacquer Hasami-Bako
Located in New York, NY
Koizumi, Traditional Japanese Furniture, New York, 1986, p. 38, pl. 40. The Hasami-bako (scissored hamper
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Metal

19th Century Japanese Lacquer Paper Storage Box, Ryoshi Bako
Located in Paris, FR
Large paper storage box (Ryoshi-bako) in gold lacquer decorated with foliage, vines and stylized
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer, Wood

19th Century Picnic Set in Japanese Lacquer - Sageju-Bako
Located in Paris, FR
Black lacquer Sageju-bako with a gilt lacquer flower decor. It is composed of a cup, two curved
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Early 20th Century Japanese Lacquer

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Bronze

19th Century Japanese Lacquered Ryoshi-Bako Mont Fuji ( Decorative Box)
Located in Paris, FR
inside of the lid shows a kuge on a horseback. The kuge means a person of high Old Japan imperial
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer, Silk

19thc Edo Period Japanese Lacquer "hakko Bako" Box & Cover
Located in Atlanta, GA
19thC EDO PERIOD JAPANESE LACQUER "HAKKO BAKO" BOX & COVER
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Antique 19th Century Boxes

Unusual Japanese Rimpa School Gilt Copper Mounted Lacquer Hasami Bako Box
Located in New York, NY
This gorgeous box is a rare example of decoration inspired by the Rimpa period. The whole adorned in golden peony branches against background of green trailing vines and polychromati...
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Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer

Japanese Gilt Copper Mounted Gold Lacquer Box or Robe Chest 'Hasami-Bako'
Located in New York, NY
Japanese gilt copper mounted gold lacquer box or robe chest (Hasami-Bako) 19th or early 20th
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Decorative Boxes

Materials

Copper

Fine Japanese Taisho Yosegi Parquetry Box
Located in New York, NY
This fine Japanese Taisho period box (bako) is decorated with yosegi-zaiku parquetry, inlaid with
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Early 20th Century Japanese Boxes

Materials

Cedar

Fine Japanese Taisho Yosegi Parquetry Box
Fine Japanese Taisho Yosegi Parquetry Box
H 3.88 in W 10.5 in D 8.13 in
19th Century Japanese Lacquer " Hakko Bako " Box
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 19th century Japanese lacquer "Hakko Bako" box with cover.
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Boxes

Materials

Brass

Antique Japanese Edo Period “Hakko Bako” Lacquer Samurai Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
An uncommon antique Japanese “hakko bako” lacquer box with lid dating from the mid-19th century
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer, Rope, Wood

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Kangxi Famille Verte Porcelain Large Dish, Qing Dynasty, 17th/18th c
Located in Austin, TX
A large and magnificent Chinese famille verte enameled porcelain large dish or charger, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662 - 1722), circa 1700, China. The shallow, shaped dish of fo...
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Antique Early 1700s Chinese Qing Ceramics

Materials

Enamel

'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
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21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Textile

17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Cabinet with Depiction the Dutch Tradepost
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A highly important Japanese export lacquer cabinet with depiction of the Dutch East India Company tradepost Deshima and the annual Dutch delegation on its way to the Shogun in Edo ...
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Antique 17th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

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Copper, Gold

Japanese Maki-e Black Lacquered Box, Ric.047
Located in Norton, MA
Japan, Edo to Meiji period, two-tiered, with the cover with a landscape design, the four sides with guilt chrysanthemum flowers.
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Boxes

Materials

Lacquer

Japan kobako box lacquer samurai - Edo
Located in PARIS, FR
Takamaki-e and kirigane lacquer kobako box depicting two samurai entering an enclosure. Four guards block their access. The side is decorated with cherry blossoms in maki-e lacquer o...
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Antique 18th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Gold

Japan kobako box lacquer samurai - Edo
Japan kobako box lacquer samurai - Edo
H 2.09 in W 0.6 in D 0.6 in
Japanese Lacquer and Cinnabar "Samurai" Cabinet, Inaba Family, Edo Period
Located in Troy, NY
Exceptionally large and rare lacquer cabinet. According to the heraldry, visible on the headgear in one of the panels, it was made for the Inaba family, a high ranking Daimyo family,...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

Materials

Wood

Early 20th Century Japanese Cherry Blossom Screen by Kano Sanrakuki
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cherry Blossoms Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981) Showa period, circa 1930 2-panel Japanese Screen Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper Against a backdrop of gold-leafed groun...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Japanese Maki-e Lacquer Stacking Box, Jubako, Meiji Period, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A fine and impressive Japanese gold maki-e decorated black lacquer five-tier jubako with presentation tray, two lids, and the original tomobako storage box, Meiji period, late 19th c...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer

Japanese Maki-e Lacquerware Portable Picnic Set Sagejubako
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sagejubako is a portable picnic set that became popular in the early Edo period when an additional meal was added between breakfast and dinner. It normally consists of a carry case w...
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer

Japan lake landscape kobako box lacquer - Edo
Located in PARIS, FR
Rectangular kobako box in takamaki-e and kirigane gold lacquer circled with pewter depicting a lake landscape. Inside and back of the box in nashi-ji lacquer. Japan – Edo period (16...
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Antique 18th Century Japanese Lacquer

Materials

Gold

Antique Korean Blanket Chest
Located in Hudson, NY
Antique Korean Blanket chest, elaborately decorated with ornate brass mounts in various geometric forms, some of which have incised landscapes and other imagery like pine and bamboo....
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Early 20th Century Korean Furniture

Materials

Brass

Antique Korean Blanket Chest
Antique Korean Blanket Chest
H 35.75 in W 34.25 in D 17.5 in
Japanese Maki-e Lacquer Sutra Box with Peony Mon, Meiji Period, c 1900, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A Japanese maik-e decorated black lacquer sutra box, kyobako, with peony mon design, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan. The elegant lacquer box originally crafted to hold sutras, sacr...
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Antique Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Lacquer

Materials

Copper

19th Century Japanese Cinnabar / Lacquer Cabinet
Located in Fulton, CA
Incredible example of Asian lacquer carving. Standing over seven feet tall, this monumental display shelf was produced in Japan at the end of the Edo period, late 19th century. It fe...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Cabinets

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Fine Japanese Lacquered Inro with Inlays by Kajikawa
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese four-case lacquer inro by a member of Kajikawa family circa 19th century (late Edo to early Meiji period). It depicts a nocturnal scenery of a meandering stream surrounded...
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Shell, Wood, Lacquer

Japanese Lacquer Incense Accessories Box, Kobako, Edo Period, mid 19th c, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A remarkable Japanese maki-e lacquer box for incense accessories, kobako, with interior fitted tray, kakego, designed with a temple complex scene, late Edo Period, mid 19th century, ...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer

Materials

Silk, Softwood, Cypress, Lacquer

Japanese Lacquer Maki-e Sake Ewer Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese lacquered wood sake ewer with maki-e design, circa late 19th century, Meiji period. The nicely decorated lacquerware is of a Classic sake ewer form with a round body, a sm...
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Antique 1890s Japanese Japonisme Lacquer

Materials

Lacquer

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Japanese Bako For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the Japanese bako you’re looking for. A Japanese bako — often made from lacquer, wood and metal — can elevate any home. There are many kinds of the Japanese bako you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. A Japanese bako, designed in the Folk Art style, is generally a popular piece of furniture.

How Much is a Japanese Bako?

A Japanese bako can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,573, while the lowest priced sells for $495 and the highest can go for as much as $24,000.