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Morning Chaps,

 

Barry had it on first hit,

 

The water dropper is commonly known as a Suiteki 水滴 .

 

There are other terms dependant upon size:  suichuu 水注, suichuujou 水中丞 (also suijou 水丞), suiu 水盂 or senjo 蟾蜍. 

 

The Suzuribako 硯箱 is the box containing the Suzuri 硯 (Inkstone) and other items essential to the process.

 

Now here's a Suzuribako of some small merit... (Click on Listen)

 

http://www.nhk.or.jp/Japan-art/archives/170713/index.html

 

It came to London with the Great Japan Exhibition back in 1982 and is one of my enduring memories of that tremendous collection of Artworks..

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