Cleveland Museum of Art
Poem Card Box with Lid
Kamisaka Sekka
- Date
- 1868–1912
- Medium
- wood with lacquer
- Culture
- Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Long, decorated cards for the calligraphic presentation of poems are called tanzaku in Japanese. This box is a collaboration between the designer Kamisaka Sekka and the lacquer artist Iwamura Sadazō. Together, they crafted this box with a golden bamboo lid, and filled it with cards decorated with gold leaf designs. Poems written on long poetry cards, or tanzaku, are often collected into albums called tekagami in Japanese.
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