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Description: Suzuribako with Design of Eight-Plank Bridge, from the Tales of Ise

TitleSuzuribako with Design of Eight-Plank Bridge, from the Tales of Ise

Creator nameOgata Kōrin

Creator nationality/cultureJapanese

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1700–1725

Creation date (description)Early 18th century

Object typeOther

MaterialsLacquer on wood with gold, lead, and mother-of-pearl

LocationTokyo National Museum

https://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_collection/index.php?controller=dtl&colid=H86&lang=en

Accession numberH86

SubjectsLacquer and lacquering--JapanIrises (Plants) in artEdo period, Japan, 1600-1868Wooden boxes

StatusKyoto or Edo, Japan

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3. Art and Family: Kōrin’s Lacquer Works and Hon’ami Kōetsu

Frank Feltens

Ogata Kōrin: Art In Early Modern Japan

Kōrin began creating lacquer works when he took his first steps as an artist in the 1690s. From the beginning, Kōrin intended to cater to diverse tastes and needs. Within this ambition, lacquer remained an important part of his artistic identity. His pieces...

Author

Frank Feltens

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.69-97

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00294.4

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Chapter subject tags:Ogata, Kōrin, 1658-1716Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868Lacquer and lacquering--JapanHon'ami, Kōetsu, 1558-1637Nagata, Yūji, active 18th centuryArtists--Japan--BiographyDecorative arts--Japan

Chapter 7: East Asia (1600–1750)

Lee Talbot and Tomoko Sakomura

History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture 1400–2000

In April 1644, after a century of dynastic decline characterized by inattentive emperors, power-hungry eunuchs...

Author

Lee Talbot and Tomoko Sakomura

PublisherBard Graduate Center

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.145-173

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00219.007

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Chapter subject tags:Decoration and ornament--China--History--Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912House furnishingsDecorative arts--Korea--History--Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910Edo period, Japan, 1600-1868International trade

1. The Lacquer Writing Box

Christine M. E. Guth

Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle

Masuda’s lifelong passion for art collecting began in 1878 with the purchase of a lacquer box containing a writing brush, inkstone, inkwell, and inkstick—the implements traditionally used by the cultivated gentleman for writing and painting...

Author

Christine M. E. Guth

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.14-40

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00024.005

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Chapter subject tags:Masuda, Takashi, 1848-1938Decorative arts--JapanMeiji period, 1868-1912Japan--Civilization--Western influencesJapanese tea ceremony--UtensilsJapanese literatiLacquer and lacquering--JapanArt--Collectors and collecting--Japan

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