Japan: Courts and Culture
Telling the story of 400 years of British royal contact with Japan
JAPAN [ASIA]
Casket and stand
1922Brass, enamel, silk | RCIN 42593
A brass cloisonné enamelled rectangular casket with a lift-off lid; pierced base casket; sitting on a brass cloisonné rectangular stand, with four scrolling legs and an inlaid top of purple silk; enamel design all over of green foliage and birds on a yellow ground. Coat of arms on the lid. Presentation address in Japanese on a scroll within, with translation in accompanying envelope.
Presented to Edward VIII when Prince of Wales by the Baron Shimpei Goto, Mayor of Tokyo, during the prince's visit to Japan, 17 April 1922; subsequently deposited at Osborne House, Isle of Wight.
Recorded in the Osborne House Inventory of Furniture, Works of Art, Pictures, Etc. in the Eastern Durbar and Horn Room Corridor, 1933 (revised 1965), p. 810 b.ii-iii: '1CASKET enamelled on enamelled stand, containing Address from Citizens of Tokyo, Japan. Given by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1922. No.88'.
