Lacquer picnic box, Japanese

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Picnic Box, 19th century
Japan

Donated by The Art Fund, 1939
Museum number 1939-379

This presentation piece is fashioned on the jubako or stacking lunch box.
The jubako was traditionally used to store food during the first 3 days of the New Year when it was a taboo to use the hearth and cook meals. The separate compartments contained rice, fish, vegetables and pickles.

Lacquer picnic box, Japanese
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