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Stationery Box (From Inkstone Case and Stationery Box Set with Poem Cards and Fans in Makie)
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- HK23-1
Photo No：117-2734
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| Title | Stationery Box (From Inkstone Case and Stationery Box Set with Poem Cards and Fans in Makie) |
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| Category | Lacquerware (H) |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Edo |
| Century | 19th |
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| Materials | |
| Dimensions | Height 37.4cm Width 32.4cm Height 14.5cm |
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This stationery box was one of several masterworks of lacquerware exhibited at the Vienna International Exposition of 1873 (Meiji 6). Afterwards the exhibits were loaded onto a French vessel heading for Yokohama, but the ship went down off Izu Peninsula, right before reaching the port of Yokohama. The government hired divers the year following the accident to collect lacquerware, but some pieces remain on the ocean floor, including a stationery box cherished by Hôjô Masako (1157-1225), the property of Tsurugaoka Hachimangû Shrine in Kamakura. The durability of makie lacquerware became highly esteemed, because the box was hardly damaged even after lying in seawater for over a year.
Japan-Edo