Comb box - Kushige

…Shosoin also contains boxes without knobs on the lid, such as the wooden Ginheidatsu box, which is recorded in the Todaiji Temple Donations Book as having contained go pieces, and the Hinoki Kusuri box, which contained Kansui stone. One of these, which contained strings for the koto and biwa, is called a Ginheidatsu comb box. Therefore, the comb box, which is mentioned in the section on Emperor Sujin in the Nihon Shoki as having contained Omononushi in the form of a small snake, must have been a type of box. …

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…正倉院にはまた《東大寺献物帳》に碁子を納めたと記す木胎の銀平脱（ぎんへいだつ）合子や，寒水石を納めた檜薬（ひのきのくすり）合子など，蓋に鈕をつけぬ合子もある。その一つで琴や琵琶の絃を納めた合子は銀平脱梳箱（くしげ）とよんでいる。したがって，大物主神が小蛇の姿ではいっていたと《日本書紀》崇神天皇条にいう櫛笥（くしげ）も，合子の一種であったにちがいない。…

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