IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 24327 accession number: O.5 & A & B-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lacquer box, kogo (box for the incense ceremony) and wooden box. Box, lacquer embellished with mother of pearl. Rectangular box with rounded corners, a seated lid (A) and heavy rims, possibly of lead alloy (maybe silver or pewter). The gold sunago ground (fine gold powder used for highlighting pictures) is decorated with the Bridge of Uji in gold heidatsu (cut sheet gold applied to a lacquer base). A willow tree and a pine tree grow on either side of the balustraded bridge. A jakago (woven baskets filled with stones to strengthen the banks of the river) is positioned in the lower right-hand corner of the lid and decorated in aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell). There are kirikane clouds (`cut gold', metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground often as a mosaic). The design is repeated in a similar technique around the sides of the box and lid depicting the river, jakagos, pine and willow trees. The inside of the box, the mikayeshi (inside of the lid) and the base are covered all over with autumn plants and herbs in gold togidashi (technique in which the design is covered with several layers of lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground) and nashiji (shimmering spangles). The kogo fits into a protective wooden box (B) covered with brown lacquer on the outside and inner rim, and tied with a beige and blue striped woven ribbon. Beneath the two pads of wadding is a small Japanese paper bag with undeciphered kana script containing cloves. title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased at Messrs. Glendining and Co. Ltd. Sale, Catalogue of the very Important Collection of Japanese Works of Art formed by the late Mr. Harry Seymour Trower, Days of Sale Monday 31 March 1913 - Monday 7 April 1913, Lot 1278 (Day of sale Friday 4 April 1913). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/24327 SUBJECTS ------------------- willow plants herbs pine river bridge clouds Bridge of Uji willow plants herbs pine river bridge clouds Bridge of Uji TECHNIQUES ---------- box, lacquer embellished with mother of pearl, rounded corners, possibly of lead alloy, silver or pewter, decorated in heidatsu (cut sheet gold applied to a lacquer base), kirikane (`cut gold', metal foil cut to various shapes and individually set into a lacquer ground often as a mosaic), aogai (small pieces of blue-green inlaid shell), togidashi (technique in which the design is covered with several layers of lacquer and polished until the design reappears flush with the ground) and nashiji (shimmering spangles) lacquering CATEGORIES ------ category: lacquer DATING ------ creation date: 1900 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1900 culture: Meiji Period (1868-1912) culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Red Cross Exhibition (1915) CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the very Important Collection of Japanese Works of Art formed by the late Mr. Harry Seymour Trower The Index of Inro Artists ---