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Poem Slip (Tanzaku) Box with Carrot Ferns (From the Kawada Family Collection of Minoya Lacquers)

Museum No.
HO53-2

Tanzaku are narrow paper slips used for vertically brushing Japanese poems. This box has an elegantly arching shape with lacy carrot ferns (shinobugusa) in sprinkled gold makie and painted black lacquer. It contains 77 verses by Kawada Jun (1882–1966), who was poetry teacher to the Heisei emperor when he was crown prince.

Japan-Taisho

Title Poem Slip (Tanzaku) Box with Carrot Ferns (From the Kawada Family Collection of Minoya Lacquers)
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Category Lacquerware (H)
Country Japan
Period Taishō
Century 20th
Year
Quantity
Materials Lacquered wood with makie (sprinkled metallic powder) decoration and lacquer painting
Dimensions Height 38.6cm Width 8.4cm Height 7.1cm
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