Object details
Accession number
CR34n19.x.1
Primary Creator
Japanese
Full title
Storage Box (Kibako) for Ash Dish (Hai-ire)
Creation Date
before 1924
Provenance
Gift from Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913), Japanese art historian and philosopher, to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 11 September 1905.
Marks
Inscribed in black ink (exterior, lid): Mrs. Gardener, Fenway Court , Boston mass, U.S.A., From Okakura
Inscribed in blue pencil (exterior, lid): 46521
Stamped (exterior, lid): Four postage stamps, Parcels post delivery charge collect 5 [five] cents S.F., No A 445 Tokyo, Received in this condition
Inscribed in black ink on white self-adhesive paper (interior, lid): One (?) set of Japanese characters.
Inscribed in black ink (interior, lid): One (?) set of Japanese characters.
Stamped (exterior, bottom): Boston Mass, 10/11, Received in this condition
Stamped (exterior, side: Boston Mass, 10/11, Received in this condition
Display Media
Wood
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Chinese Room
Bibliography
William Thrasher and Caroline Graboys. "The Beginnings of Chanoyu in America." Chanoyu Quarterly (1984), pp. 20, 24-25. (as Japanese)
Sunao Nakamura (ed.). Okakura Kakuzo: Collected English Writings, III (Tokyo, 1984), pp. 61-63, 58-59.
Victoria Weston. East Meets West: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum V. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1992), p. 28.
Rebecca G. Breslow. "Humanity in a Tea-cup: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo" in Chanoyu Quarterly: Tea and the Arts of Japan, No. 85 (1996), pp. 51-53.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 176-77.
Louise Allison Cort. "Mrs. Gardner's 'Set of Tea-Things.' A Vehicle for Friendship, Power, & Aesthetic Instruction" in Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 384-86.
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