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. (21.6 cm); W. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); L. 2 in. (5.1 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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