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Writing box
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The decoration on lacquer writing materials usually refers to a poem or story only indirectly. The oi (a basket carried on one’s back), here set among rampant vines, refers to an episode from The Tale of Ise, in which a traveller is overcome by a feeling of sadness while walking on an overgrown path through the mountains.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineSchrijfdoos. 1775 - 1825. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
