Jewellery boxes in the metropolis

In the old days the veneration in which the Japanese held the work of the great artist was intense. The tea-masters guarded their treasures with religious secrecy and it was often necessary to open a whole series of boxes, one within another, before reaching the shrine itself – the silken wrapping within whose soft folds lay the holy of holies. Rarely was the object exposed to view, and then only to the initiated.

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