Important Edo p. Yanagisawa Daimyo Lacquer Bowl Set
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Directory: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1800: Item # 1442263
Directory: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1800: Item # 1442263
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A boxed set of fifteen unique bowls with lids for clear soup made for the Lord of the Yanagisawa family enclosed in a wooden box dated the 7th month of 1730. What makes this set quite unique is that each bowl is singular, a different design, color, shape or technique. But throughout is the one continuous symbol, the four petaled crest of the Yanagisawa clan. The box is titled Yakatasama, Go Suimono wan, Yangisawa Shimono and on the side Jugonin-mae. Yakatasama, means a nobleman's house such as a public house or a samurai house. Under the Shogunate it was a title or honorific granted to the head of a prestigious or meritorious samurai family or feudal lord of a Great Clan. Suimono Wan are bowls for clear soup served between parts of the meal to clean the palette. Yanagisawa Shimono is the name of a member of the Yanagisawa clan. On the side is written Jugonin-mae or service for 15. The box is divided into three compartments holding five bowls and lids in each compartment. Each bowl is roughly 12.5 cm (5 inches) diameter and they are in overall excellent condition with some browning of the lacquer inside due to heat from use.
Kawagoe-jo Castle in Musashi Kuni in modern Saitama Prefecture was given to the Yanagisawa clan by the fifth shogun in the 7th year of Genroku (1694). In 1724, in gratitude to the family’s service and recognition of their skill at administration, they were granted control over four domains (Yamato, Omi, Kawachi and Ise) totaling 150,000 Koku of rice. Undoubtedly at that time there would have been a sudden need for furnishings bearing the symbol of the family throughout their four domains, and this set of bowls is one of those furnishings. To this day the crest adorns the Yanagisawa Bunko library a designated cultural property in Yamato Koriyama city housing tens of thousands of antique texts from the era, a testament to the power of this important clan.
A boxed set of fifteen unique bowls with lids for clear soup made for the Lord of the Yanagisawa family enclosed in a wooden box dated the 7th month of 1730. What makes this set quite unique is that each bowl is singular, a different design, color, shape or technique. But throughout is the one continuous symbol, the four petaled crest of the Yanagisawa clan. The box is titled Yakatasama, Go Suimono wan, Yangisawa Shimono and on the side Jugonin-mae. Yakatasama, means a nobleman's house such as a public house or a samurai house. Under the Shogunate it was a title or honorific granted to the head of a prestigious or meritorious samurai family or feudal lord of a Great Clan. Suimono Wan are bowls for clear soup served between parts of the meal to clean the palette. Yanagisawa Shimono is the name of a member of the Yanagisawa clan. On the side is written Jugonin-mae or service for 15. The box is divided into three compartments holding five bowls and lids in each compartment. Each bowl is roughly 12.5 cm (5 inches) diameter and they are in overall excellent condition with some browning of the lacquer inside due to heat from use.
Kawagoe-jo Castle in Musashi Kuni in modern Saitama Prefecture was given to the Yanagisawa clan by the fifth shogun in the 7th year of Genroku (1694). In 1724, in gratitude to the family’s service and recognition of their skill at administration, they were granted control over four domains (Yamato, Omi, Kawachi and Ise) totaling 150,000 Koku of rice. Undoubtedly at that time there would have been a sudden need for furnishings bearing the symbol of the family throughout their four domains, and this set of bowls is one of those furnishings. To this day the crest adorns the Yanagisawa Bunko library a designated cultural property in Yamato Koriyama city housing tens of thousands of antique texts from the era, a testament to the power of this important clan.