An Album of Miniature Urushi-e (Lacquer Paintings)

• A miniature album of five lacquer paintings, each on paper within a gold-washed fabric surround and opposite a blank gold-washed page; the first a kyūsu (pot for sencha, steeped tea), boiling on a portable ceramic brazier and a dōgutate stand with two sumitori (tools for arranging charcoal); the second a Shōjō (red-haired drunken sprite) asleep cradling a large sakazuki (sake cup) and dipper next to a vat of sake; the third a plate of tea-ceremony sweets and two kashikiri (sweet picks); the fourth an asagao (morning glory) and leaves; the last a block of tofu and a leaf bound together with rice straw
• 5,1 x13,3 x 16,2 cm (2,0 x5,3 x 6,4in)