Sweet Set of Hand-painted Wooden Houses and Buildings sacred This may be my favorite

This may be my favorite lacquered box I've had--and I've gathered a fair number of lacquer boxes

but also the secular aspects of tea and Japanese life

With lovely design and illustrations throughout

Watercolor

and clearly made

Sweet Set of Hand-painted Wooden Houses and Buildings sacred This may be my favoriteOne finds a variety of wooden folk houses and structures painted on wood blocks as these are, but these charmed me for being cheerful but not at all fussy, and for the great combo of colors all together. I also like the houses mixed together with the triple deckers, which makes for good for stacking, too! I found them all together, though I'm not totally sure that were all made by the same person as the painting is more precise on some than others all