Artist: Takizawa Koryūsai Ii
Date: 1800
Museum: Tachibana Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
Technique: Lacquer
This wine cup has a rare design featuring a board game ‘sugoroku (Japanese backgammon)’. The spirally arranged design is executed in hira maki-e (flat sprinkled metal decoration) on the vermilion lacquered surface. It depicts celebrated places in Edo (modern Tokyo) from the start of the Nihonbashi Bridge to the completion of the Ote-mon Gate of Edo Castle.The creator, Kōryusai is considered to have been a 19th-century maki-e artist, but the details of his career are unknown.
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