Kōda Katei
Document Box with Poem and Bush Clover, 1930s
Maki-e gold lacquer on wood with metal and shell inlays
Size 3¾ x 11¼ x 14½ in. (9.8 x 28.8 x 36.7 cm)
T-4126
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Bunko (document box) with kabusebuta (overhanging lid) decorated in gold hiramaki-e and lead and shell inlay with characters from a waka (33-syllable classical verse) over a yamimaki-e (black-on-black lacquer) ground...
Bunko (document box) with kabusebuta (overhanging lid) decorated in gold hiramaki-e and lead and shell inlay with characters from a waka (33-syllable classical verse) over a yamimaki-e (black-on-black lacquer) ground depicting hagi (bush clover, Lespedeza bicolor)
Fitted black-lacquered wood tomobako box inscribed in red lacquer Asayasu waka bunko朝康和歌 文庫 (Document box with a poem by Asayasu) and signed in gold lacquer Katei saku嘉亭作 (Made by Katei) with seal Kōda Katei
The poem decorating this box, by Fun’ya no Asayasu (active circa 900), is number 37 in Hyakunin isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets), an anthology compiled by Fujiwara Teika (also known as Sadaie, 1162–1241) and reads in full:
Shiratsuyu ni / kaze no fukishiku / aki no no wa / tsuranuki tomenu / tama zo chirikeru 白露に風のふきしく秋の野はつらぬきとめぬ玉ぞ散りける (In the autumn fields / the wind blows hard down upon / white droplets of dew / looking like a broken string / of beads scattered on the ground)
Kōda Katei was the younger brother of the prominent Kyoto lacquerer Kōda Shūetsu (1881–1933).
Fitted black-lacquered wood tomobako box inscribed in red lacquer Asayasu waka bunko朝康和歌 文庫 (Document box with a poem by Asayasu) and signed in gold lacquer Katei saku嘉亭作 (Made by Katei) with seal Kōda Katei
The poem decorating this box, by Fun’ya no Asayasu (active circa 900), is number 37 in Hyakunin isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets), an anthology compiled by Fujiwara Teika (also known as Sadaie, 1162–1241) and reads in full:
Shiratsuyu ni / kaze no fukishiku / aki no no wa / tsuranuki tomenu / tama zo chirikeru 白露に風のふきしく秋の野はつらぬきとめぬ玉ぞ散りける (In the autumn fields / the wind blows hard down upon / white droplets of dew / looking like a broken string / of beads scattered on the ground)
Kōda Katei was the younger brother of the prominent Kyoto lacquerer Kōda Shūetsu (1881–1933).
Exhibitions
Lak 2016