Flat, lidded writing box with inner compartments, small metal mizussashi in the shape of a Genji-mon representing the Suma chapter of the Genji Monogatari, decorated with gold lacquer landscape, and moon and waves on the inside
| Accession Nr.: | 1990.1-4 |
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| Type: | object for daily use; lacquers |
| Date of production: |
mid-19th century
Edo (Tokugawa) period or Meiji era |
| Place of production: | |
| Acquisition: | collection of Ferenc Hopp |
| Materials/Techniques: | wood, lacquer (maki-e), silver |
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| Dimensions: | height 18 cm width 15.6 cm depth 3.2 cm |
Writing box (suzuribako) with a depiction of the coast at Suma and the mon for the 12th chapter of Genji Monogatari. Unsigned.
