Letter Box with Ivy in Makie
- Date
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制作年 AD18
- Title
- ツタマキエフバコ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Lacquered wood with maki-e
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000757-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
- URL
- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Brown Wood Rectangle Wood stain Natural material
An “ivy-covered path” is described in the Ise Monogatari (The Tales of Ise) in the chapter “Going down to the East”. The path, located in the Utsunoya Mountain Pass (Shizuoka Prefecture), a difficult passage through a dense and dark forest, was often depicted in works of art. For example, the well-known painting on byobu (folded screens) titled “Ivy-Covered Path”, by Tawaraya Sotatsu (years of birth and death unknown) and accompanied by a text written by Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (1579-1638), is based on this famous scene from the story. (Currently, the “Ivy-Covered Path” is preserved at Jotenkaku Museum, Shokakuji, Kyoto). Another pictorial representation of the same theme is found on the “Inkstone Case with Ivy-Covered Path in Makie” from the Momoyama Period, preserved at the Imperial Household. In The Tales of Ise, the main character, believed to have been modeled after Ariwara-no-Narihira (825-880), comes across a monk in training at the Utsunoya Mountain Pass. The holy man is on a pilgrimage for Kyoto, so Narihira gives him a letter, asking that it be delivered to an acquaintance in the city. The exhibited letter box, in allusion to this part of the story, has adopted the ivy-entwined design, which has been executed on pearskin lacquer decorated with gold powder.
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- Title (EN)
- Letter Box with Ivy in Makie
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1合
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 高蒔絵
- Attachments
- 紐2房
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