are tiered boxes used to hold and present food in Japan.
The boxes are often used to hold ''
osechi
Osechi-ryōri (御節料理, お節料理 or おせち) are traditional Japanese New Year foods. The tradition started in the Heian period (794–1185). ''Osechi'' are easily recognizable by their special boxes called '' jūbako'' (重箱), whi ...
'', foods traditional to the
Japanese New Year
The is an annual festival with its own customs. Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, . However, some traditional events of the Japanese New Year are par ...
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or to hold takeaway lunches, or
bento
A is the Japanese cuisine, Japanese iteration of a single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch. Outside Japan, it is common in other East and Southeast Asian culinary styles, especially within Chinese cuisine, Chinese, Korean c ...
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A or , is a picnic set of ''jūbako'' in a carrier with handle.
There is also , a kind of chinese styled bowl,
some stackable like ''jūbako''.
Gallery
File:誰ヶ袖蒔絵重箱-Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with “Whose Sleeves?” (Tagasode) Design MET DP704176.jpg, An 18th century wood, gold and sliver foil ''jūbako''
File:菊唐草葵紋蒔絵提重-Portable Picnic Set (sagejū) with Chrysanthemums, Foliage Scroll, and Tokugawa Family Crest MET DP154362.jpg, Sagejū
File:Round food box on high foot ring (jikiro) with design of peonies, Ryukyu Islands, 16th-17th century AD, red and black lacquer with chinkin on wood - Ethnological Museum, Berlin - DSC02082.JPG, Jikirō
See also
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Tiffin carrier
Tiffin carriers or dabbas are a kind of lunch box used widely in Asia and the Caribbean for tiffin meals. From India, they spread to Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, where they are now widely used. They ar ...
: tiered lunchbox of India and the Caribbean
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Food packaging