Japanese Lacquer Boxes

A striking and rare Japanese Kodaiji style lacquer kyara-bako, box for precious agarwood incense, Momoyama period (1573-1615), late 16th to early 17th century, Japan.

A very fine Japanese maki-e lacquer decorated tabako bon, or smoking box, late Edo Period, mid-19th century, Japan.

Antique japanese red and black lacquered Bamboo Food Carrier or Box, front side can be open Dimensions: Height 18'' x width 15.5" x depth 11".   

Interior and base of the box in nashi-ji lacquer. Japan - Taisho Era (1912-1926) Height: 1.4 in / 3.5 cm - width: 2.8 in / 7.2 cm - depth: 9.4 in / 23.9 cm

A Japanese lacquered wood fubako (a box to store document or small scroll painting) circa late 18th century of Edo period.

An exceptional, oblong lacquer 3-tiered storage box with cover, reminiscent of a bento box, by Hiroshi Hayashi (1967). Covered in shiny gold and black lacquer with red accents. The s...

A stunning Japanese Edo period lacquer tanzakubako, box for poem cards, late 18th-early 19th century, Edo Period, Japan.

Japanese lacquered papier-mâché box with hand-painted decoration, Japan, 19th century.

A Japanese ink stone box (known as Suzuribako) with exquisite maki-e decoration from Edo period (circa mid-18th century).

A refined Japanese lacquer letter box (fubako or bunko) dating from the Showa period, 20th century.

This Japanese Maki-e Lacquer Kinkaku-ji Box by Zohiko dates to the late Meiji period, circa 1910.

A refined Japanese lacquer fumibako (document box), dating to the Meiji–Taisho period, late 19th to early 20th century.

Mitamura Jiho 三田村自芳 Ivy Makie Lacquer Paper Box 290(W)× 130(H) × 365(D) [mm] Estimate packing size: W50 H25 D40cm 5kg He have studied makie under Akatsuka Jitoku, the 8th master of...

This is a box for the matcha powder using while tea ceremony in Japan.

This is a box for the matcha powder using while tea ceremony in Japan.

This is a box for the matcha powder using while tea ceremony in Japan.

Japanese antique lacquer document box with elaborate hawk and faux oak grain, Late Meiji (1868 - 1912) / Early Taisho (1912 - 1926) period lacquer box with impressively rendered hawk...

Showa period urushi red lacquer kōgō style lidded box - featuring stylized wading cranes to the lid and modified trellis work to the base - the base is raised on three small lacquer ...

An exquisite Japanese Meiji Period small lacquer incense box, kogo, in the form of a duck or goose, late 19th century, Japan.

2 drawers. Drop down top. A Japanese black lacquer box Together with a blue and white Arita plate, 20th century Lacquer box of rectangular form with bamboo decorated cover, fitt...

Two large eight-sided kaioke boxes in black lacquer, decorated with mon and maple leaves in golden lacquer.

A Japanese black lacquer document box decorated with a large crane in flight, dating from the Showa period, 20th century.

Wheels Submerged in flowing water motif, believed to be a subject popular in samurai families. Example of the same subject matter in Tokyo National Museum.

A fine and unusual Japanese black lacquer and mother of pearl inlaid box, Momoyama Period, 16th century, Japan.

Superb rectangular black lacquer tebako (box for personal accessories) with a slightly domed well-fitted lid. The lid has a continuous soft-tone multicoloured hiramaki-e (low-relief...

A very special Japanese Rinpa style small lacquer box for incense accessories, kobako, by Santo Kyosui (1816 to 1867), late Edo period (1603 to 1868), mid 19th century, Kyoto, Japan.

Very unusual kobako or encens box, in natural wood decorated lacquered maple leaf.

Presentation Tebako box from the Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912).

The Inro is comprised of three stacked compartments and features a deer motif with mother of pearl accents, an ojime and a wooden frog netsuke. Inros were used to store items like m...

Realised in maki-e on black lacquer with smaller details in kirigane, Small boxes formed of compartments that fit one on top of the other, inrō (印 籠) are traditional Japanese cloth...

A seven-piece Japanese Arita Sweetmeat set and matching lacquer box, Meiji period (1880-1890).

Vintage Urushi red lacquer tray with six stemmed cups - each cup gilt decorated with a different floral, leaf or bamboo specimen - the tray gilt decorated with bamboo to the center, ...

A captivating lacquer suzuri’bako (writing box) of rounded rectangular form depicting a pair of shishi (temple lions) and the lucky god Hotei 布袋 on a rôiro’urushi (black lacquer) gro...

Antique five tier Japanese lacquered wooden stacking box, known as a jubako.

Rectangular and flat lacquer Kobako (small box) representing a furoshiki knot seen from above.

A striking and rare black lacquer box by celebrated Japanese lacquer artist Hiroshi Mimura (1921–1975), known for his bold, modernist reinterpretations of traditional techniques.

This antique card box is unsigned or initialed, so the specific artist is unknown, but is believed to have been made in Japan in circa 1900 in the period Meiji style.

An uniquely double-gourd-shaped lacquer suzuri’bako (writing box) with a design of gourd leaves, by Hara Yôyûsai (1769-1845). Covered with amber coloured lacquer and decorated in gol...

A Japanese lacquered wood fubako (a box used to store document or small scroll painting), circa second half of 19th century late Edo period.

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A fine late 20th-century Japanese lacquer kobako, or small incense box, exquisitely decorated in traditional maki-e with a rooster and hen.

Huge Japanese red lacquerware gourd motif box, decorated in relief with Japanese gourds suspended from leafy branches and scrolling vines.

An elegant lacquered suzuribako (writing box) by the lacquer artist Ogimura Sakitoshi (1943). Of rounded rectangular form with a gently domed cover, the exterior finished in a gloss...

A Japanese roiro lacquer scholar combo box with an upper tier of inkstone box (Suzuribako) and a lower document box (Ryoshibako) circa 1910-30s (end of Meiji to Showa period).

Turn of the century Japanese black lacquer pin box, elegantly adorned in silver and gold decoration over a sleek black lacquer base.

An exquisite small Japanese maki-e lacquer stacking box for incense and accessories, ju-kobako, late Edo or early Meiji Period, mid 19th century, Japan.

Nice little black lacquer box from Japan. It is made of black lacquered wood and decorated with flowers and foliage.

A powerful Japanese lacquer decorated suzuribako, writing box, featuring an image of fighting cocks, early Edo Period (1603 - 1868), 17th century, Japan.

A refined example of Japanese lacquer craftsmanship and samurai iconography.

A pair of Edo period black and gold lacquer Samurai helmet boxes (Hakko Bako), each of ribbed cylindrical form with a lid, a black lacquer interior, green tasselled cord and four tap...

Japan, 19th/20th century, one red-lacquered with an inner compartment; one black-lacquered with an inner compartment.

Suzuribako (writing box) in black lacquer, rectangular in shape, with a gold lacquer (maki-e) decoration of a pavilion by the edge of a waterfall and a mountain river surrounded by v...

Kōgō (incense box) in textured and lacquered wood, shaped like a physalis.

Small lacquered wooden box in the shape of an eggplant. Top of the fruit near the leaves painted with silver pigments.

Built on a solid wooden core, the box is deeply carved with flourishing chrysanthemum motifs before being finished with multiple layers of dark, lustrous lacquer.

Literally translated as “small box,” kobako are often adorned with harmonious decorative scenes inspired by Japanese flora and fauna.

It is round, short and has a flat lid. It is often made of lacquer. The natsume is used for light tea or some thick tea preparations; while the cha-ire (ceramic tea box), for thick t...

A 19th-century Japanese lacquered wooden box, finely decorated according to traditional Japanese craftsmanship.

A vintage Japanese Tsuzuri bako, writing box. with an unusual, deeply carved relief of Japanese sarcandra glabra, a woody herbal sub-shrub native to Asia with deep green glossy leave...

A Japanese lacquer writing box 19th Century Of rectangular shape, overall painted in famille rose colors with flowers, all on a yellow ground, the interior in red.