Writing Box with Portrait of Fujiwara no Ietaka and His Poem about the Tatsuta River, 龍田川蒔絵硯箱, Edo period (1615–1868), 18th
Writing Box with Portrait of Fujiwara no Ietaka and His Poem about the Tatsuta River, 龍田川蒔絵硯箱, Edo period (1615–1868), 18th century, Japan, Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, and red lacquer on silver ground, H. 8 1/2 in. ( cm); W. 8 1/8 in. ( cm); L. 2 in. ( cm), Lacquer, The poem on the outside of the lid is rendered in fine hiramaki-e, imitating calligraphy in ink. The inside of the box is embellished with colorful maple leaves in a river on nashiji ground. The poem, by Fujiwara no Ietaka (1158–1237), is about the Tatsuta River in Nara Prefecture: Tatsuta gawa momiji o tozuru usugō ri wataraba kore mo naka ya taenan On Tatsuta River a layer of red maple leaves is trapped within thin ice, and if we were to go across the brocade would be torn
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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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