Writing Box with Landscape
- Date
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制作年 Edo period(18th century)
- Title
- サンスイマキエスズリバコ
- Measurements
- 8.9×7.6×2.4
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Lacquered wood with maki-e
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
This delightful small inkstone box is adorned with the characters for ‘grass pillow’ (kusamakura) in ashi-de (reed-hand script), applied with the so-called hyōmon (metal sheet inlays) lacquering technique. Ashi-de is a decorative style of calligraphy in which the characters of waka poems that inspired the design are scattered on the surface of paper and crafts. The design of this box alludes to a poem by ŌNAKATOMI no Yoshinobu (921–91) from volume 6 of the Collection of Gleanings (Shūi Wakashū). It reads: Pillow of grass / not only me / the calling goose / in the sky also / sets out on a journey. Inside the box there are small items, including an inkstone, a water dropper decorated with cloisonné, and two brushes with gold hollyhock crests.
Description from the exhibition Catalogue "Letter-scape: Century Akao Collection, A World of Letters and Figures", Keio Museum Commons, April 2021
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- Title (EN)
- Writing Box with Landscape
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- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1合
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 梨子地／七宝（水滴）
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- 布団
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