Scroll box

Object Details

• Description

  Scroll box: base with overlapping lid, two gilt-copper loop fittings; lacquered wood with decoration in gold and silver powder (maki-e) on lid, depicting decorated paper slips for writing poetry (tanzaku) tied to a sprig of pampas grass (susuki).

• Provenance

  ?-1980

  Takashi Yanagi (1938-2021), Kyoto, Japan [1]

  From 1980

  National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, purchased from Takashi Yanagi, Kyoto, Japan [2]

  Notes:

  [1] This was purchased from Takashi Yanagi in 1980. Takashi Yanagi (1938-2021), of Takashi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts in Kyoto, Japan was an important dealer of Asian art.

  [2] See note 1. This work is part of the Museum’s Freer Gallery of Art Collection.

  Research updated on April 24, 2026

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Autumn Colors (October 19 to December 20, 1984)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Takashi Yanagi (1938-2021)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — funds provided by the bequest of Edith Ehrman

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1615-1868, 1600s, 1630s

• Name

  Takashi, Yanagi

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615), Maki-e, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Lacquer, Poetry, Grasses

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers