Organising Letters and Postcards
in a "Maki-e" Flower Box.

As the finest thus the largest lacquerware brand in Japan YAMADA HEIANDO has long been committed to creating items that the Japanese use in daily life.

One such example is this letterhead box commonly known as "te-bunko" in Japanese (手文庫 literally meaning "a collection case for letters in size of a hand"). The Japanese is known for our enthusiasm in letter writing as notable in the development of classical poems that were exchanged in forms of intimate letters.

With the aim of spreading lacquerware's beauty and practicality all over the world we have enlarged the size from original A6 (postcard size) to handier A4 (letter size).

You can set this letterhead box on your desk in the office to keep important business letters organised. Or you can place it on a centre table at your house to collect greeting cards and postcards as by Japanese tradition. However you prefer to use it the beautiful flowers on the lid will brighten your reading environments.

The flowers striking in colour and stunning in detail are hand-painted by our exclusive craftsmen. We have applied varieties of a traditional gilding technique called "maki-e" for finishing.

Our attention to quality is so intense that we change methods to paint different parts of the flowers depending on the texture colour and shape of each. Their three-dimensional touch and delicate sparkles are the fruit of Japan's finest craftsmanship.

Your Favourite Design in Your Favourite Colour.

Akikusa ( 秋草 Japanese Flowers )

Depicted are classical flowers of Japan: arrowroots balloon flowers and eulalia. The Japanese have been favouring them since as early as the 7th Century when renowned poets chanted the beauty of their nature in the famous anthology Man'yoshu (『万葉集』).

Each flower attracts the Japanese with their vigorousness that they flourish even in the wilderness and bloom beautifully.

Their language read energy as well as thoughtfulness of arrowroots gracefulness of balloon flowers and mutual understanding of eulalia. The 3 flowers together symbolise a wish for a further prosperity yet to come.

JAPANESE FLOWERS in Vivid Colours and Delicate Sparkles.

Hand-painted by using "iro urushi" (colour lacquer). Our craftsmen mix raw lacquer with dyes just before starting painting so that they can adjust the mixing combinations depending on the day's temperature and humidity.