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A Chinese-style chest used to store clothes, arms,
personal effects, sutra srolls (in this case called kyoukarabitsu oC)
and other valuables. Rectangular in shape, with four or six legs, lid and lock,
they are of plain wood, vermilion-lacquered, or lacquered with sprinkled precious
metals *makie ͺG or mother-of-peral
inlay *raden ην. Lavish Heian
period examples are preserved at Kongoubuji ΰυ on Mt. Kouya μ and Houryuuji
@². Originally utilitarian, they were sometimes later also treated as art objects.
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