big red japanese refrigerator

yesterday jessie said she found me a wedding present online. she was extremely excited about it and said “Guess what it is!”

After a game of 5 Questions (not unlike the game 20 Questions) i gathered that the present in question is the following:

• big
• red
• japanese

these are pretty good clues.  the only thing my imagination can come up with, however, is a “big red japanese refrigerator”. japanese-lacquer (shikki) red. this is obviously wrong. she said that i’ve seen and touched this object.  for the life of me i don’t know what it is.

part of me hopes it’s a gigantic refrigerator-sized red-lacquer japanese xbox360, but it won’t be. jessie is anti-xbox-in-the-house.  i can empathize because it’d end up being long nights of me wearing a headset and yelling profanities at the TV (to teenagers online). that would probably de-romanticize the newlywed experience pretty quick.

my guesses get more terrible from here. is it red samurai armor? it it a japanese koi? as you can see, i’m not too deft at this game. i guess i’ll have to wait and be surprised.