are tiered boxes used to hold and present food in Japan.
The boxes are often used to hold ''
osechi
(御節料理, お節料理 or おせち) are traditional Japanese New Year foods. are easily recognizable by their special boxes called '' jūbako'' (重箱), which resemble '' bentō'' boxes. Like ''bentō'' boxes, ''jūbako'' are often ke ...
'', foods traditional to the
Japanese New Year
The is an annual festival that takes place in Japan. Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, . Prior to 1872, traditional events of the Japanese New Year wer ...
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or to hold takeaway lunches, or
bento
A is a Japanese-style single-portion take-out or home-packed meal, often for lunch, typically including rice and packaged in a box with a lid (often a segmented box with different parts of the meal placed in different sections). Outside Japa ...
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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 silver 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 Malaysia and Singapore and to Trinidad and Tobago.
In the Indian city of Mumbai, there is a complex and efficie ...
: tiered lunchbox of India and the Caribbean
References
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Food packaging