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Sake Cups with the Grasses of Spring in Makie
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Title | Sake Cups with the Grasses of Spring in Makie |
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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 |
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Signature/Seals Etc | |
Donor | Okamura Takemori |
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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