Gilt-Bronze Handled Incense Burner with Bottle-shaped Counterweight (Sonei-ji version)
Copper, cast, gilded · Muromachi period · 16th century · Hattasan Sonei-ji (Shizuoka)
An incense burner passed down through a century of warfare: the act of a monk holding the burner to offer incense has never ceased at the ancient Enshū temple.
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