Box with tray

Lacquer ware
Japan

Thema/Dekor :

Lid: the poet Ono no Komachi  小野小町図

Interior: poem in cursive script

Material:

Hiramaki-e and togidashi lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

Datum:

Early 20^thcentury

Masse:

height 4.2 cm, width 9.7 cm

Herkunftsort:

Japan

Künstler:

signed « Ganshôsai Shunsui 巌松春翠» with kaô .

Kommentar:

Interior: poem in cursive script                        草書

 Wretch that I am -                                   わびぬれば

a floating waterweed,                              .身をうき草の

broken from its roots                              ねをたへて

If a stream should beckon,                   さそふみづあらば

I would follow it, I think                        いなんとぞ思ふ

(Kokinshû no. 938, trans. Donald Keene)                    (古今集 938)

Inventar-Nr.:

CB.LJ.1924.40

Copyright:

Baur Fondation

Fotograf:

Marian Gérard