Miyazaki Heiando
Set of Writing Box and Document Box with Poem, Grasses and Flowers, 1920s
Maki-e gold lacquer on wood with silver inlays and silver rims
Size writing box: 1¾ x 9¾ x 7½ in (4.5 x 24.8 x 19 cm)
Size document box: 4¾ x 16 x 12¾ in. (12.3 x 40.4 x 31.6 cm)
Size document box: 4¾ x 16 x 12¾ in. (12.3 x 40.4 x 31.6 cm)
T-1261-1
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The decor of this matching set of boxes combines pampas grass and flowering stems of bush clover in hiramaki-e gold lacquer with 25 inlaid silver characters, on both lids and...
The decor of this matching set of boxes combines pampas grass and flowering stems of bush clover in hiramaki-e gold lacquer with 25 inlaid silver characters, on both lids and on two sides of the larger box, that spell out the full text of a poem by Jōsaimon’in no Hyōe (active late twelfth century) from the imperial anthology Senzai wakashū (Poem Collection of a Thousand Years, presented to the Emperor in 1188):
On spring evenings / when the colors of the flowers / are picked out by its / bright light shining through the trees / that’s the time to view the moon
The moon-shaped water dropper reinforces the connection between word and image.
A set of a writing box and a document box in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by designer Kamisaka Sekka (1866 –1942) and his lacquerer brother Kamisaka Yūkichi (1886 –1938), also featuring pampas grass and bush clover, similarly gives the full text of a poem, although in that case it appears to be an original composition rather than a quotation from an anthology. Pampas grass and bush clover are two of the Seven Grasses of Autumn.
Each box comes with its original fitted lacquered paulownia-wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside Document box with maki-e decoration of characters from a poem and Writing box with maki-e decoration of characters from a poem. Both boxes signed inside Miyazaki Heiandō
On spring evenings / when the colors of the flowers / are picked out by its / bright light shining through the trees / that’s the time to view the moon
The moon-shaped water dropper reinforces the connection between word and image.
A set of a writing box and a document box in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by designer Kamisaka Sekka (1866 –1942) and his lacquerer brother Kamisaka Yūkichi (1886 –1938), also featuring pampas grass and bush clover, similarly gives the full text of a poem, although in that case it appears to be an original composition rather than a quotation from an anthology. Pampas grass and bush clover are two of the Seven Grasses of Autumn.
Each box comes with its original fitted lacquered paulownia-wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside Document box with maki-e decoration of characters from a poem and Writing box with maki-e decoration of characters from a poem. Both boxes signed inside Miyazaki Heiandō
Exhibitions
WAS 2019
Lak 2016
Publications
Catalog 2013.29