Tiered Box (Jubako)

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A five-tiered jubako with two lids decorated with harvest motifs: susuki, millet, rice, oats, barley, and adzuki plants with long pods of beans. Thin bamboo canes support a loose string hung with naruko (bird-scarers), while a tauter line is adorned with bird feathers and gohei (paper offerings to the gods). Tiny butterflies hover overhead. The spare lid is decorated with susuki and another bird-scarer. These designs are executed in gold, silver, and black hiramakie and takamakie, with details in shell, kirikane, ivory, gold, and silver, seed pearls, harigaki, ishime, kakiwari, keuchi, and kuromakie, on a seidonuri ground. The interiors of nahiji on black ground. Goke (Bakumatsu kaikaki no shikko kaiga, Nos. 7–13) reproduces four more jubako by Shibata Zeshin and lists documentary evidence, based on the catalogues of exhibitions held in 1889 and 1940, for the existence of a further fifteen.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Tiered Box (Jubako)

Date

1889 or earlier

Medium

hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, kirikane, harigaki, ishime, kakiwari, keuchi, kuromaki-e, ivory, gold, silver & seed pearls

Accession number

54

Work type

Sculpture

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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