MAKE A MEME View Large Image Ikeda Taishin - Box for Poem Papers - Walters 67127 - View A.jpg Shikishi is decorated paper upon which would be written a Japanese or a Chinese poem The poem sheets could be kept in boxes like this one turned into albums or mounted on ...
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Keywords: Ikeda Taishin - Box for Poem Papers - Walters 67127 - View A.jpg Shikishi is decorated paper upon which would be written a Japanese or a Chinese poem The poem sheets could be kept in boxes like this one turned into albums or mounted on screens or as hanging scrolls This box mimics in appearance two overlapping sheets of traditional shikishi -the lower a silver sheet with swirling clouds the upper a golden sheet decorated with autumn flowers by a stream with flakes of gold confetti sprinkled at the top late Other date century 19 Meiji lacquer cm 17 7 20 4 accession number 67 127 21962 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Imperial Japan The Art of the Meiji Era 1868-1912 Herbert F Johnson Ithaca; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute- Museum of Art Utica; Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati; Portland Art Museum Portland 1980-1981 place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Art of Japan in the Walters Art Museum Ikeda Taishin Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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