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Keywords: Japanese - Cabinet for the Incense Guessing Game - Walters 67255 - Interior.jpg This ko-awase-dogu-dana or cabinet for the incense game is gold lacquer and has three shelves and three drawers containing six copper implements a brocade bag with ten paper envelopes a small tray a rectangular box and a box for the counters The cabinet has a design of leaf-shaped fans on a background of flowers of various kinds The fans are elaborately decorated with tortoises birds flowers and the scenery of Fujisan with winding streams etc The interior of the lower drawer is decorated with clouds The rectangular tray for incense Koban is of gold lacquer and rests on four low feet It has a slightly raised rim and indented corners The interior of the tray is decorated with two overlaping fans one with a flying crane and the other with a feather pattern Both appear against a floral background The rectangular box for the set of implements for cutting incense wood Kowari-dogu is of gold lacquer with an interior frame for a saw knife chisel mallet and chopping block The instruments are of steel with lacquered handles The top of the lid is decorated with two overlaping leaf-shaped fans one with a heron and the other with a butterfly and flowers Both fans appear against a background of pampas grass pinks and bush-clovers; theis same floral design continues on the exterior sides of the box The interior lid has layers of clouds The box for counters for the incense game Fuda-bako is gold lacquer octagonal and barrel-shaped The upper half of the box has an oval opening cut out and is rimmed with metal The exterior is decorated with pinks bush-clovers and pampas grass century 18 19 gold lacquer copper textile paper Cabinet cm 22 3 13 3 27 1 ; Koban cm 1 9 6 8 15 ; Kowari-dogu cm 3 1 9 6 12 3 ; Fuda-bako cm 7 3 5 accession number 67 255 24845 William T / Henry Walters Collection Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T or Henry Walters place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Art of Japan in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Kōbako
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