This Japanese box would once have held a hanging scroll--long since separated from it, but such a beautiful box! Google image can be dangerous/useless, but I managed to get what I believe is a correct translation of the label adhered to one short end, indicating the subject of the scroll was the Thirteen Buddhist dieties (though it also seems possible more than one scroll had a life in this box!) In any case, it clearly has a good bit of age, nice warm patina to the dry wood and a beautiful richness to the black ink. And how useful a long narrow box like this--for housing rolled drawings, or canvases, or filling with votives, or whatever. If I came across 100 of these, I'd buy them all, excellent things.
27 1/2" l x 3 1/8" w x 3" t. Beautiful antique condition, beautiful patina, sturdy and sound. With remnants of ties that run through holes in the long sides and would be used to securely tie the lid onto lower box.
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