cma-japanese-art: Box, 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese ArtFor the cover designs on writing b
cma-japanese-art: Box, 1800, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese ArtFor the cover designs on writing boxes, Chinese motifs like Mt. Penglai (Horai-zan in Japanese), the island of immortality, remained popular. A landscape with a river, buildings, mountains, trees, and clouds decorates the top of this portable writing box while the inside is embellished with clouds, birds, water, and grasses and offers a space for a tiny ink stone.Size: Overall: 15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.)Medium: lacquerhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1974.271 -- source link