Box for Incense Ash

19th century (Edo-Meiji)

7.3 cm 4.8 cm 5.3 cm

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This "takigara-ire" is four-lobed and decorated in black and gold lacquer. The lid and exterior sides of the box are decorated with similar designs of autumnal flowers, small rocks, and four "mitsuaoi" crests. There is a black "ro-iro" background for a design in "hira-makie" i...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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