A FINE LACQUER ‘WAKANA’ SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) AND COVER, DEPICTING THE THIRD PRINCESS’S CAT FROM THE TALE OF GENJI

LOT 274 · 已结束

起拍价 EUR3000.00

拍卖时间：2026-09-02 16:00

拍卖行： Galerie Zacke

专场： 日本艺术精选专场：秋季版

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A FINE LACQUER ‘WAKANA’ SUZURIBAKO (WRITING BOX) AND COVER, DEPICTING THE THIRD PRINCESS’S CAT FROM THE TALE OF GENJI Japan, 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Of rectangular form with canted edges, bearing a lustrous roiro ground finely decorated in gold takamaki-e and hiramaki-e. The kabusebuta (overhanging lid) presents an elegant courtly garden enclosed by latticework and slatted fences, with cherry, pine, willow, and maple trees, their trunks and branches enriched with kirigane. The imagery continues across the gyobu-nashiji interior, where partially raised bamboo blinds (sudare), edged with a hanabishi pattern, reveal flowering shrubs and a cat attached to a long cord. Together with the ball-shaped metal suiteki (water-dropper), evidently representing a kemari ball, these motifs allude to the celebrated episode from the ‘Wakana I’ chapter of The Tale of Genji, in which the Third Princess, Onna San no Miya, watches courtiers playing kemari in the garden until her tethered cat disturbs the blinds, allowing Kashiwagi a forbidden glimpse of her. The fitted interior further houses an ita (baseboard), two brushes, a kogatana (knife), and a suzuri (inkstone). The rims are finished in fundame. SIZE 5 x 25.5 x 24.1 cm With an inscribed wood tomobako (storage box).

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