Accessories box with scenes from The Tale of Genji, 17th-18th century, Unknown Japanese, 7 3/8 × 8 1/2 × 10 9/16 in. ( × × cm), Black lacquer with gold maki-e, silver flakes, sheet metal, and pictorial pearskin ground (e-nashiji); metal fittings, Japan, 17th-18th century, Genji imagery was particularly common on women’s furnishings like this cosmetics and accessories case. Here, the motifs on the box’s exterior allude to scenes from chapter 14, only they do so without human figures.

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