After Shibata Zeshin, late 19th centuryThe rounded tapering body with a bamboo cover, the black ground imitating cast iron, lacquered in gold and coloured takamaki-e with an oni (demon) escaping from beans that are raining down upon him, the reverse with a window above a branch of holly, the window bars of inlaid pewter and the interior of black lacquer, inscribed Zeshin; with a coral ojime. 7cm (2?in) high.