Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle barber's brush but unreadable other than what

but unreadable other than what looks like a big cursive S

Something related to spinning wool

Okakura Kabuza discusses Zen and Taosim

sun shining above the ocean

This beautiful vintage Japanese lacquer box

Burmese Yun-De Round Lacquer Box with Handle barber's brush but unreadable other than whatThis is a lovely small Burmese lacquer box decorated with yun de incised decoration, painstakingly executed by hand, one color at a time. The design features what I believe are guardian lions ("chinthe"; the equivalent to "foo dogs" in Chinese culture) repeating around the perimeter of both top and bottom halves of the box. The solid orange red lacquer handle at the center of the top makes this box particularly nice, with a circle of fine lines around