Box for the Incense Game in the Shape of an Umpire's Fan

Description This gold lacquer box for the incense game ("kogo") is in the shape of an umpire's fan partially overlapping a circular box. It has two similarly shaped interior boxes with lids and a circular incision on the bottom of the main box. On the top of the lid is a fan decorated with deer and maple trees; on the circular box is a branch of blossoming plum overhanging a bamboo fence. The interior boxes are decorated with chrysanthemums and peonies.

Exhibitions

• Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia. Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, Philadelphia. 1876.

Provenance Minoda Chojiro, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1876