Incense Box (Kobako) with Scene from "His Perfumed Highness" (Niou no Miya), chapter 42 of the Tale of Genji. Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 2 in. (5.1 cm); W. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); L. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm). Date: 19th century.The lid of this box is made of two interlocking seashells illustrating a chapter of the Tale of Genji. Publicly recognized as Genji's son, Kaoru has doubts about the circumstances of his birth. A poem voiced by the troubled man, and written above him within stylized clouds, reads: Obotsukana tare ni towamashi Ikanishite hajimemo hatemo shiranu wagami zo (Whom might I ask Why must it be that I do not know the beginning or the end) --trans. Edward G. Seidensticker, Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), p. 737. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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Incense Box (Kobako) with Scene from "His Perfumed Highness" (Niou no Miya), chapter 42 of the Tale of Genji. Culture: Japan. Dimensions: H. 2 in. (5.1 cm); W. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); L. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm). Date: 19th century.The lid of this box is made of two interlocking seashells illustrating a chapter of the Tale of Genji. Publicly recognized as Genji's son, Kaoru has doubts about the circumstances of his birth. A poem voiced by the troubled man, and written above him within stylized clouds, reads: Obotsukana tare ni towamashi Ikanishite hajimemo hatemo shiranu wagami zo (Whom might I ask Why must it be that I do not know the beginning or the end) --trans. Edward G. Seidensticker, Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), p. 737. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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