Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape

Japan

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This box with two compartments and an interior tray would have contained incense and the implements used in the traditional game of discriminating different fragrances of incense. Its landscape decoration of rolling hills covered with flowering cherry trees and a swift-flowing stream are motifs associated with the Yoshino mountains south of Nara, long celebrated in Japanese art and poetry.

Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan

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Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan
Box for Incense Utensils with Cherry Blossoms in a Landscape, Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground, Japan

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