Saratani Tomizo (1949-) Haru ichiban (The First Gale of Spring)
Reiwa era (2019-), August 2019A keyaki-wood tray with prominent grain carved in gourd-shaped outline, finished in thin fuki-urushi lacquer, decorated with a spider in black takamaki-e and gold okibirame and a spider's web in shell beneath branches of flowering red prunus in gold maki-e and red lacquer, minutely signed on an irregular gold plaque Tomizo; with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside Haru ichiban (The First Gale of Spring), signed and sealed inside Tomizo. 3cm x 70.5cm x 40.5cm (1 1/8in x 27?in x 16in). (2).