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Storage Box (Kibako) for Ash Dish (Hai-ire)
Image Not Available for Storage Box (Kibako) for Ash Dish (Hai-ire)

Storage Box (Kibako) for Ash Dish (Hai-ire)

Datebefore 1924
Place MadeJapan, East Asia
MediumWood
ClassificationsBoxes
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberCR34n19.x.1
eMuseum ID728917
EmbARK ObjectID17256
TMS Source ID5549
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesWilliam Thrasher and Caroline Graboys. "The Beginnings of Chanoyu in America." Chanoyu Quarterly (1984), pp. 20, 24-25. (as Japanese)
Sunao Nakamura (ed.). Okakura Kakuzo: Collected English Writings, III (Tokyo, 1984), pp. 61-63, 58-59.
Victoria Weston. East Meets West: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum V. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1992), p. 28.
Rebecca G. Breslow. "Humanity in a Tea-cup: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo" in Chanoyu Quarterly: Tea and the Arts of Japan, No. 85 (1996), pp. 51-53.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 176-77.
Louise Allison Cort. "Mrs. Gardner's 'Set of Tea-Things.' A Vehicle for Friendship, Power, & Aesthetic Instruction" in Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 384-86.
MarksNotesInscribed in black ink (exterior, lid): Mrs. Gardener, Fenway Court , Boston mass, U.S.A., From Okakura
Inscribed in blue pencil (exterior, lid): 46521
Stamped (exterior, lid): Four postage stamps, Parcels post delivery charge collect 5 [five] cents S.F., No A 445 Tokyo, Received in this condition
Inscribed in black ink on white self-adhesive paper (interior, lid): One (?) set of Japanese characters.
Inscribed in black ink (interior, lid): One (?) set of Japanese characters.
Stamped (exterior, bottom): Boston Mass, 10/11, Received in this condition
Stamped (exterior, side: Boston Mass, 10/11, Received in this condition

ProvenanceNotesGift from Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913), Japanese art historian and philosopher, to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 11 September 1905.
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