Writing box (suzuribako 硯箱), Harui Kômin

Lacquer ware
Japan

Subject/design:

On the lid, the Kamo Shrine, north of Kyoto, set among sugi (cryptomeria) and maple trees, preceeded by a torii and a double bridge. In the distance, Mount Hiei among banks of mist.

On the back of the lid and the inside of the box, a continuous landscape showing a hut with a water-wheel on the Shirakawa River.

Materials:

Hiramaki-e and togidashi lacquer with kirigane

Size:

5.8 x 24 x 26.9 cm

Place of origin:

Japan, Tokyo

Artist:

Harui Kômin 春井愃眠 (1869- after 1936)

Inventory number:

CB.LJ.1932.118

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographer:

Marian Gérard