Catalogue information
Edo period, 18th century
Black lacquer with gold maki-e and lead inlay on pearskin ground (nashiji, 梨地)
2.5 x 14.2 x 15.7 cm (1 x 5 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 755 in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[poem 689]
[top of lid] Upon the mat,
[inside box] spreading but one side [of your robe,] / tonight again, [bridge maiden of Uji,] do you wait for me?