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Poem Card Box with Lid
Kamisaka Sekka1868-1912
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Long, decorated cards for the calligraphic presentation of poems are called <em>tanzaku </em>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.
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- Title: Poem Card Box with Lid
- Creator: Kamisaka Sekka (Japanese, 1866-1942)
- Date Created: 1868-1912
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 37.5 x 7.1 cm (14 3/4 x 2 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Leighton R. Longhi, New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Lacquer
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.120
- Medium: wood with lacquer
- Fun Fact: Poems written on long poetry cards, or <em>tanzaku,</em> are often collected into albums called<em> tekagami</em> in Japanese.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912)
- Credit Line: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Leighton R. Longhi
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1991.120
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