Incense Box (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Volume of The Tale of Genji
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This small incense box was created in the shape of a book. On the cover, suspended from a branch of a blossoming cherry tree, is a long poem-card (tanzaku) inscribed with a poem from Chapter 8, “A Banquet Celebrating Cherry Blossoms” (Hana no En).
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