29. * IIZUKA TŌYŌ (KANSHŌSAI) LINEAGE A Gold and Black-Lacquer Bundai (Writing Desk) Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The bundai of standard form with fudegaeshi (raised sections to left and right), decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e and gold togidashi maki-e and e-nashiji with a night scene depicting a flock of chidori (plovers or dotterels) flying over pine and millet along the bay of Wakanoura, applied with silver engraved mounts, the scalloped inner edges of silver, the outer sides of the two front legs embellished in gold takamaki-e with millet stalks, signed on the lower left in gold lacquer Kanshōsai with a kaō; with a wood storage box inscribed Wakanoura on-bundai and with a paper slip inscribed Hachisuka-ke maki-eshi, Iizuka Kanshōsai tsukuru (made by Iizuka Kanshōsai, maki-e craftsman for the Hachisuka family) 12,5cm x 59cm x 33,8cm (2).