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A LACQUER KOGO [INCENSE BOX] A LACQUER KOBAKO [SMALL BOX]
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY) EDO PERIOD (MID-19TH CENTURY)
富士松原蒔絵香合 松帆浦蒔絵小箱
江戸時代（19世紀） 江戸時代（19世紀中期）
The rectangular box with rounded corners and fush-ftting cover, decorated in gold The rectangular box with fush-ftting slightly domed cover, decorated in gold,
and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi, kinpun and kirikane with pine trees in silver and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, togidashi, kinpun, cut gold foil and hirame,
the foothills of Mount Fuji, nashiji interior, silver rims the cover depicting a scene of Matsuho Bay from a poem by Fujiwara no Teika
(1162-1241), seaweed burner’s huts beneath pine trees on a seashore, stylised chidori
8.8cm. long
[plovers] fying of the distance, the design continuing over the sides with further
£1,500-1,800 $2,600-3,000 pine trees, mura-nashiji interior, fundame rims
€1,900-2,200
12.4cm. long
£2,000-3,000 $3,400-5,100
PROVENANCE:
€2,500-3,700
Eskenazi Ltd., London
This box depicts the scene of a poem by Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241), the
anthologist and master poet, included in the Hyakunin isshu [The hundred poems
by the hundred poets] that Teika compiled around 1235.
Konu hito o Like the seaweed burnt for salt
Matsuho no ura no at Matsuho Bay
Yunagi ni in the evening calm,
Yaku ya moshio no my being is afame
Mi mo kogare tsutsu awaiting him who does not come

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