Box for personal accessories (<em>tebako</em>)
date: label: Date
content: early 17th century
label: Period
content: Momoyama or Edo period
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content: Tebako were portable boxes that usually held sets of smaller, similarly decorated boxes that would contain a woman's toiletries, combs, mirrors and other personal items. The striking decorative style of this example is known as Kodaiji maki-e, named after the mortuary temple in Kyoto dedicated to the memory of the powerful warrior Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598). Professional lacquerers of the Koami school, who were commissioned to produce the architectural decoration and objects for the Kodaiji, employed distinctive designs featuring relatively flat, large-scale motifs simply delineated in fine gold powder in the technique termed maki-e and reddish gold-flecked technique known as nashiji.
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content: The fresh, vibrant style associated with Kodaiji appealed to the taste for innovative design that prevailed in Kyoto at the turn of the seventeenth century. The decoration of this box is divided diagonally into broad zones with two different motifs--wisteria and seashells with seaplants--set against contrasting grounds of nashiji and black lacquer.
label: Provenance
content: To 1907
label: Provenance
content: Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1907 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in 1907 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1207, pg. 27, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Moonlight and Clouds: Silver and Gold in the Arts of Japan (November 11, 2008 to November 11, 2009)
label: Exhibition History
content: Freer: A Taste for Japanese Art (July 1, 2006 to January 1, 2007)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu (June 6, 1998 to February 15, 1999)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to June 27, 1994)
label: Exhibition History
content: Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese and Chinese Lacquer (September 22, 1982 to June 30, 1983)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Lacquer (18 May 1980 to 15 June 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: Japanese Lacquer (April 16, 1979 to October 8, 1980)
label: Exhibition History
content: Chinese and Japanese Art--Lacquer and Paintings (August 18, 1967 to October 14, 1969)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: wisteria
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content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
label: Topic
content: maki-e
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content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1907.106
objectType: label: Type
content: Container
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lacquer and gold on wood; metal rims and fittings
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (overall): 19.7 x 30.4 x 26.6 cm (7 3/4 x 11 15/16 x 10 1/2 in)