Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers early 14th century Japan Like many other tea-ceremony incense boxes, this work might have originally been part of a twelve-piece cosmetic box set (jnitebako), where it would have served as a container for tooth-blackening material. This meticulously crafted small box is decorated with an auspicious composition of plovers and evergreen pine trees on a seashore scattered with shells. Plovers are associated with longevity because their cry, chiyo, is a homonym for “a thousand years.”. Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers. Japan. early 14th century. Lacquered wood with gold togidashimaki-e on nashiji (“pear-skin” ground). Nanbokuch period (1336-92). Lacquer

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Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers early 14th century Japan Like many other tea-ceremony incense boxes, this work might have originally been part of a twelve-piece cosmetic box set (jnitebako), where it would have served as a container for tooth-blackening material. This meticulously crafted small box is decorated with an auspicious composition of plovers and evergreen pine trees on a seashore scattered with shells. Plovers are associated with longevity because their cry, chiyo, is a homonym for “a thousand years.”. Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers. Japan. early 14th century. Lacquered wood with gold togidashimaki-e on nashiji (“pear-skin” ground). Nanbokuch period (1336-92). Lacquer

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