Stem table, 1482
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Negoro ware; wood, red and black lacquer with gold leaf inscriptionexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.411a,b
Not on Viewexpand_more
Several inscriptions on the undersides of this red lacquer table record that it was originally part of a set consisting of six large and six small tables. Produced in the spring of 1482, the tables were used during a religious ceremony honoring Shinra Myōjin, a Shintō deity associated with Onjōji (also called Miidera), an important temple-shrine complex on the shores of Lake Biwa east of Kyoto.
Details
- Title
- Stem table
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.411a,b
- Provenance
- Shinra Zenshindō, at Onjōji, Shiga Prefecture Jim Freeman until Invoice August, 2002; purchased in October, 2002
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 788
- Curator Approved
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