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A SET OF UTAGARUTA (POEM CARDS)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The set of 196 cards for the Hyakunin
isshu card game decorated in ink, colors
and gold leaf on paper with the various
poets on one half of the set and their
associated poems on the other, the cards
held in brocade wrappers, the accompanying
lacquer box with an overhanging cover
decorated on the exterior with a landscape
with rice fields before distant mountains in
gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and togidashi
maki-e with gold foil and kirikane on a roiro-
nuri ground, the interior mura-nashiji, the
edges fundame
4 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 5 3/8in (12 x 16.5 x 13.5cm)
$2,500 - 3,500

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A CIRCULAR SUZURIBAKO (WRITING
BOX)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Decorated in gold, red and black hiramaki-e,
nashiji and kinpun on a roiro-nuri ground
sprinkled with hirame with a baku beneath
a nanten (nandina) bush, the interior with a
removable tray supporting an inkstone and
a circular bronze water dropper, the interior
gold nashiji
With a wood tomobako storage box
6 7/8in (17.5cm) diameter

$3,000 - 5,000
Published
Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View
of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing
Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako,
Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011,
cat. no. 30

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