The Burke Collection
Storage box containing handwritten 41-volume Taiheiki (太平記)
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Catalogue information

Edo period, 18th century

Black lacquer with gold maki-e

24 x 39.5 x 27.4 cm (9 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015