Yusanbako (three-tiered wooden bento box)
Also written: 遊山箱 · 游山箱
A three-tiered wooden bento box unique to Tokushima Prefecture that showcases traditional woodworking techniques and elegant decoration, celebrated as a Japanese folk craft.
An Illustrated Japan / Tokushima / Culture & Tradition
About this place
Yusanbako is the three-tiered wooden boxed lunch unique to Tokushima City, produced with a lacquering woodworking technique called mokuhari. Used as a boxed lunch for yusan, a spring outing into the hills to enjoy nature, and for hina matsuri and shobu sekku doll festivals, children carried it to the mountains, rivers or seaside. Designs burst with seasonal motifs: rabbits, waves, warriors. A traditional piece is small, about 17 cm square, 21 cm tall for the outer case, with individual inner boxes 14 cm, lacquered mainly red inside. Craft history traces to custom orders for temple pilgrimages built under orders of Moku-no-kami,.
