Lot 936: A lacquer writing box ( suzuribako )

A lacquer writing box (suzuribako)
Taisho-Showa period (early 20th century), Uematsu Hobi (1872-1933)
Square with rounded corners and slightly domed lid, decorated in gold hiramaki-e and togidashi with plum boughs and flying bush warblers on a nashiji and black ground, the rough bark of the tree and the blossoms embellished with some of the characters of a classic poem in cursive script (uta-e), the interior decorated in gold togidashi with plum blossoms and buds and with pine branches on a fine nashiji ground; fitted with a slate inkstone with fundame rim and nashiji base, a kettle-shaped silver water dropper (suiteki) cast in relief with pine boughs matching those on the interior lacquer in a leaf-edge saucer in gold and silver, and a knife, paper pricker and two brushes in matching lacquer cases of fundame dusted with kinpun; rims of the writing box silver
10¼ x 9 x 2in. (26 x 23 x 5cm.)
With original wood box (tomobako), signed Furosai Shujin [Hobi] saku and sealed Muidojin and Hobi and inscribed with a poem titled Ume no hana (plum blossoms) about plum blossoms in early spring by Ki no Tsurayuki, transcribed and translated below

A lacquer writing box (suzuribako)
Taisho-Showa period (early 20th century), Uematsu Hobi (1872-1933)
Square with rounded corners and slightly domed lid, decorated in gold hiramaki-e and togidashi with plum boughs and flying bush warblers on a nashiji and black ground, the rough bark of the tree and the blossoms embellished with some of the characters of a classic poem in cursive script (uta-e), the interior decorated in gold togidashi with plum blossoms and buds and with pine branches on a fine nashiji ground; fitted with a slate inkstone with fundame rim and nashiji base, a kettle-shaped silver water dropper (suiteki) cast in relief with pine boughs matching those on the interior lacquer in a leaf-edge saucer in gold and silver, and a knife, paper pricker and two brushes in matching lacquer cases of fundame dusted with kinpun; rims of the writing box silver
10¼ x 9 x 2in. (26 x 23 x 5cm.)
With original wood box (tomobako), signed Furosai Shujin [Hobi] saku and sealed Muidojin and Hobi and inscribed with a poem titled Ume no hana (plum blossoms) about plum blossoms in early spring by Ki no Tsurayuki, transcribed and translated below