Stem table, 1482, Unknown Japanese, 11 1/4 × 11 1/16 × 11 1/2 in. ( × × cm), Negoro ware; wood, red and black lacquer with gold leaf inscription, Japan, 15th century, Several inscriptions on the undersides of this red lacquer table record that it was originally part of a set consisting of six large and six small tables. Produced in the spring of 1482, the tables were used during a religious ceremony honoring Shinra Myōjin, a Shintō deity associated with Onjōji (also called Miidera), an important temple-shrine complex on the shores of Lake Biwa east of Kyoto

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