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This large iron bound barrel, with removable lid, bears 4 inscriptions in Japanese. I would love to know what it says?? The script is faint in places, but I hope it's legible.
Barrel is 70cm high x 57cm wide.

Dear Lisa,
This is not a Japanese sake barrel, but a Chinese Qing dynasty safety deposit box imitated in a style of a rice barrel. It must have a concealed lock system, a kind of pull ring. The opening on the lid were used to throw the money-strings in.
The readable ink marks on the barrel body;
Left top vertical row;
錢龍臥處　-　Lying place for millipedes (money-strings)
Left lower vertical row,
山昆泰山記　- Notes on Kunlun and the Mount Tai Shan (Book title - maybe the owner's favorite)
Right top vertical row,
I can't decipher
Right lower row,
癸亥年置　-　Deposited in the year of Water-Pig (..1803,1863)

With regards,
I.Nagy

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