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- Fan-Shaped Box with Scenes from “The Typhoon” (Nowaki) Chapter of The Tale of Genji
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Fan-Shaped Box with Scenes from “The Typhoon” (Nowaki) Chapter of The Tale of Genji
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- HK200
Photo No：180508_HL_0021
Color type：Color
| Title | Fan-Shaped Box with Scenes from “The Typhoon” (Nowaki) Chapter of The Tale of Genji |
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| Category | Lacquerware (H) |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Edo Initial |
| Century | 17th |
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| Materials | Lacquered wood with makie (sprinkled metallic powder) decoration |
| Dimensions | Height 29.5cm Width 21.6cm Height 5.6cm |
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This box may have been used to hold pieces of incense wood, though we cannot be sure. It displays a scene from “The Typhoon,” in The Tale of Genji. After a damaging storm, Genji’s son Yūgiri visits the Empress and glimpses her colorfully robed servant girls setting out insect cages in the damp grass, amidst the wafting scent of incense.
Japan-Edo-Beginning of the