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Box for Documents; View into a house/feathers
This document or stationery box, in which papers and scrolls were stored, is the mate to the adjacent writing box (67.75). The inlaid silver inscription is a fragment of Genji's poetic reply to the emperor woven across an image of a snow-covered veranda in the city of Kyoto. Genji wrote:
The snows beneath the pines of Oshio
Have never known such mighty company.
Exhibitions
| 2011 | The Art of Writing Instruments from Paris to Persia. |
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 5 x W: 15 7/8 x D: 12 5/8 in. (12.7 x 40.32 x 32.07 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired before 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
67.161