Japan

Room 11

Lacquerware 漆器

Drawer 8

1. Inrô 印籠

   Polychrome togidashi hiramaki-e 研出平蒔絵

   Courtier and Heian-period ladies (794-1185) 歌合図

   Signed “Koma Kyûhaku” with kaô 銘  古満休伯 (花押)

   Edo period, late 18^th - early 19^th century 江戸中~末期 (18世紀末~19世紀初)

   CB-LJ-1964-221

2. Inrô 印籠

   Polychrome takamaki-e 色絵高蒔絵

   The poet Ono no Komachi (c. 825-900) 小野小町図

   Signed “Kansai utsu” with kaô 銘  寛哉写 (花押)

   Edo period, late 18^th- early 19^th century 江戸中~末期 (18世紀末~19世紀初)

   CB-LJ-1964-127

3. Inrô 印籠

   Togidashi with mother-of-pearl inlay 研出蒔絵螺鈿

   The poet Ono no Komachi praying for rain 雨乞小町図

   Signed “Tôyôsai” 銘  桃葉斎

   Edo period, late 18^th - early 19^th century 江戸中~末期 (18世紀末~19世紀初)

   CB-LJ-1964-192

4. Box with tray 箱と盆

   Hiramaki-e and togidashi 平、研出蒔絵

   Lid: the poet Ono no Komachi 小野小町図

   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)

   Signed “Ganshôsai Shunsui” with kaô 銘  巌松春翠 (花押)

   Early 20^th century 明治後期~大正時代

   CB-LJ-1924-40

5. Inrô 印籠

   Hiramaki-e and togidashi 平、研出蒔絵

   Imperial ox-cart at Nonomiya shrine (reference to chapter 10 of the Genji-monogatari) 野宮図

   Signed “Shiomi Masanari” 銘  鹽見政誠

   Edo period, 18^th - early 19^th century 江戸中~末期 (18世紀~19世紀初)

   CB-LJ-1964-418