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A pair of Japanese lacquer Kai-Oke shell game containers 18th /…
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Melbourne
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8-Oct-2018
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A pair of Japanese lacquer Kai-Oke shell game containers 18th / 19th century pair of boxes for storing shells for the Kai-awase (shell Matching). With main design of Kamon (family crests), bamboo leaves to top and delicate gilt copper Kanagu (metalwork fittings) and orginal ropes and tassels. Two sets of one hundred & eighty shells were usually required for this traditional game of memory where designs from poetry anthologies or classics like 'The Tale of Genji' where matched with their accompanying shell and design, approximately 43 cm high
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