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 20thcentury
Masse:
height 4.2 cm, width 9.7 cm
Herkunftsort:
Japan
Künstler:
signed « Ganshôsai Shunsui 巌松春翠» with kaô .
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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