Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers early 14th century Japan Like many other tea-ceremony incense boxes, this work might have originally been part of a twelve-piece cosmetic box set (j?nitebako), where it would have served as a container for tooth-blackening material. This meticulously crafted small box is decorated with an auspicious composition of plovers and evergreen pine trees on a seashore scattered with shells. Plovers are associated with longevity because their cry, chiyo, is a homonym for “a thousand years.”. Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers. Japan. early 14th century.
Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers early 14th century Japan Like many other tea-ceremony incense boxes, this work might have originally been part of a twelve-piece cosmetic box set (j?nitebako), where it would have served as a container for tooth-blackening material. This meticulously crafted small box is decorated with an auspicious composition of plovers and evergreen pine trees on a seashore scattered with shells. Plovers are associated with longevity because their cry, chiyo, is a homonym for “a thousand years.”. Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers. Japan. early 14th century. Lacquered wood with gold togidashimaki-e on nashiji (“pear-skin” ground). Nanbokuch? period (1336–92). Lacquer
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