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maki-e and black lacquer on wood; maki-e lacquer on wood
nickel, gilt silver kyodai h. 62.7 (245/3)
mirror holder h. 63.3 (247/3) kushidai 26.1 x 29.4 x 21.8 (io5/i6 x
kushidai 37.5 x 36.4 x 25.3 (143/4 x 143/8 119/10 X 89/i6)
x 10) Edo period, i9th century
Edo period, icth century Tokyo National Museum
Eisei Bunko, Tokyo
This cosmetic set is part of the bridal fur-
The wife of the tenth-generation Hoso- nishings owned by the daughter of Toku-
kawa daimyo, Narimori (1804-1860) is be- gawa Harutomi (1771-1852), the
lieved to have owned this set of cosmetic tenth-generation daimyo of the Wakayama
utensils. It includes a folding mirror holder domain in Kii Province. In 1816 she was
and two mirrors cast from nickel engraved married to Nariyori, the sixth son of Toku-
with the name Fujiwara lesato, a famous gawa lenari (1773-1841), the eleventh sho-
mirror-maker of the late Edo period (right). gun. Included here are a kyôdai
At the center of the set is the kushidai, lit- (mirror-holder on a chest of drawers) and
erally "comb stand/' which holds not only its mirror, many containers and the uten-
combs but also various brushes and boxes sils they hold, a kushidai (comb stand) with
of powder and oils. On the left is a set of its various combs, brushes, and boxes of
equipment for ohaguro, or blackening the powders and oils, and a set of equipment
teeth, a custom popular among both men for tooth blackening (ohaguro). The deco-
and women in the court class from the ration consists of the hollyhock mon, asso-
Heian period, and practiced by women af- ciated with the Tokugawa family, and a
ter they had come of age or married in the bamboo trellis fence in gold and silver
Edo period; the metal objects in this set maki-e lacquer on a pear-skin ground
are made of gilt silver. The design consists (nashiji). SN
of gold maki-e lacquer chrysanthemums
on a black lacquer ground. SN

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