Few other items i found,, not sure what they are.....

[goinlower6969]

[estcrh]

Nice items, the first appears to be a yatate, which is a pot for holding ink, I cant see if the handle is hollow for holding a brush or not. The second item is a eating utensil holder, I have 1 which holds chop sticks and a knife, I have seen a few for sale but I do not know the Japanese name, I cant see what yours holds exactly but it looks interesting, I see a black lacquered water dipper or bashaku in the picture. The spike thing in the box....cant see to well but it may be a type of shuriken which a small throwing weapon. If you can post some more pics of everything with different angles that would be great. The items appear to be Edo period to me but better pics would help, there are better judges of that here than me though.

[bridgeofdreams]

First two pictures show a yatate which is a portable case for carrying a brush (in the tube part) and a bit of cotton or wool wet with sumi ink (in the 'bowl' part.) Tucked into the obi, it became a handy way to write (or draw) on the run.

 

There's an ebay seller named tokyoruss who has an informative page here:

http://www.stutler.cc/pens/yatate/sales.html

 

Yours has a kind of Meiji-touristy look to it.

 

-Craig

[Toryu2020]

I'm digging that little lacquer dipper you can see in the box of odds and ends,

If you've time with all that you have going on i'd love to see a close up of that.

-tom

[Bugyotsuji]

Very difficult to see with those pics. The chopsticks set is probably Mongolian.

 

The iron object in the pencil box is half hidden. The other long box looks like one for carrying an old-style Japanese straight razor.

 

The Ba-jo-hai or Bashaku is nice. Not too many around. I have two; by coincidence just brought one of them into the office this morning.