(c) 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Medicine Case (Inro)

Dateearly 19th century

Place MadeJapan, East Asia

MediumLacquered wood with gold, silver, and red hiramaki-e and togidashimaki-e with cut out gold foil on nashiji ground; lacquered netsuke with gold and silver hiramaki-e on black ground; painted bead ojime

Dimensions8.6 x 6 cm (3 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.)

ClassificationsBoxes

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberU18e75

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryThe Noh play Takasago concerns longevity and happy marriage, themes here represented by an elderly couple who clear needles from under a pine tree, revered for its long life. The netsuke is a small lacquered box; the clasp is a painted bead. Signed: Koma Kansai [1767–1835]. Source: “Japanese Objects,” in Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (Boston: ISGM and Gutenberg Periscope, 2009): 414.

Id719126

Last Updated8/9/24

Previous NumberU18e54.4

EmbARK ObjectID13421

Source ID2354