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Property from the Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis
A lacquer suzuribako (writing box)
Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th centuryThe rounded rectangular writing box decorated in gold takamaki-e and gold, black, and red hiramaki-e with highlights of hirame and kinpun with Choryo (Zhang Liang) being lifted from the waters by a dragon after he had jumped in the river to retrieve Kosekiko's (Huangshigong's) shoe, the underside of the cover with a rocky landscape with farmers and a distant pavilion, and a Tokugawa family crest, the interior of the box decorated with a mandarin duck beneath a pine tree and a waterfall, fitted with a rectangular inkstone and a gilt-metal water dropper formed as a leafy gourd, the rims pewterWith a wood tomobako storage box 8 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/4in (20.3 x 19 x 3.1cm)
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PublishedEdmund J. Lewis and Joe Earle, Shadows and Reflections: Japanese Lacquer Art from the Collection of Edmund J. Lewis at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1996, cat. no. 6, pg. 146Stephen 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. 60