Artame ne juni no tebako narabi ni kushi (casket and combs)

Kubo Shumman, artist

1757–1820

Artame ne juni no tebako narabi ni kushi (casket and combs), 1814, Edo period (1600–1868)

Portfolio/Series title: Kamakura shi (Records of Kamakura)

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: color woodcut

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 194 x 185 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 76 3/8 x 72 13/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in

Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial

Accession number: 0000.1520

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The Records of Kamakura was an eight-volume historical guidebook of the ancient capital which was published in Kyoto in 1685. The book includes a lengthy description of Hachiman, the most important Shinto shrine in Kamakura. Among the sacred treasures preserved at the shrine was the Casket of Twelve, a small casket which contained thirty small combs of isu wood. The book contains a picture of one of the combs which Shumman must have copied.