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Property from the Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis
Kano Tessai (1845-1925)
A hardwood suzuribako (writing box)Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th centuryRectangular with a fitted cover, set on a low foot and decorated with a recessed panel carved with Kannon seated beneath a pine tree on a rock by a stream, inscribed and signed on the interior of the cover Neiraku Masatsugu kore o Yuiga-dokuson koji Tessai (Design copied by Neiraku Masatsugu, the Buddhist layman Tessai), and with the artists's distinctive kaoWith a wood tomobako storage box inscribed Kannon no zu suzuribako (Writing box with Kannon design) and signed on the interior Tessai, at the Saishoseisha in Nara, December 1925, with the same kao 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 1 3/4in (23.5 x 16.5 x 4.5cm)
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PublishedStephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako, Honolulu: University of Hawai?i Press, 2011, cat. no. 80