"A Lacquer And Ivory Okimono Box Depicting A Samurai Armor"
An okimono-box in lacquer and ivory depicting a samurai armor, mounted on a container entirely decorated in hiramaki-e, hirame, and kirikane lacquer techniques. On the sides are Sōjōbō, the king of the Tengu, holding a fan and dressed as a yamabushi, and Yoshitsune, holding a wooden staff. At the top, above the kabuto helmet, rests a karasutengu.
Published in the volume Selezione 2024.
Unsigned
Height: 16 cm
Period: Meiji, circa 1880
For a similar example of a lacquer box in the shape of an armor, see Meiji no Takara, Treasures of Imperial Japan, part of the Nasser D. Khalili Collection.
In particular, refer to Lacquer Part II, item no. 138.
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