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Sake Cups with the Grasses of Spring in Makie

Museum No.
HO38
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Photo No:116-2701-1
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These sake cups invite you to drink instead of eat the Seven Spring Herbs (nanakusa) normally eaten in rice porridge on the seventh day of the New Year. Large to small, they include: daikon radish, turnip, Shepherd's purse, water dropwort, henbit, Jersey cudweed, and common chickweed.

Japan-Meiji

Title Sake Cups with the Grasses of Spring in Makie
Designation
Artist Inami Kirokusai
Category Lacquerware (H)
Country Japan
Period Meiji
Century 20th
Year 1903
Quantity
Materials lacquered wood with makie (sprinkled metallic powder) decoration
Dimensions 19.5cm 10.0cm
Inscription by
Signature/Seals Etc
Donor Okamura Takemori
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