jūbako

{{Short description|Japanese food box}}

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File:里芋菊蒔絵重箱-Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with Taro Plants and Chrysanthemums MET DP369034.jpg, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York]]

{{nihongo||重箱|Jūbako|lit. "tiered boxes"}} are tiered boxes used to hold and present food in Japan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202101/202101_02_en.html|title=Food and Dishware as Landscapes|date=2021-01-02|access-date=2021-08-11|website=Highlighting Japan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120090835/https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202101/202101_02_en.html|archive-date=2021-01-20|url-status=live|publisher=Public Relations Office of the Government of Japan}} The boxes are often used to hold osechi, foods traditional to the Japanese New Year,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/japaninfo/dec2016/03.html|title=Osechi-ryori: The New Year's Feast|date=2020-11-26|access-date=2021-08-11|website=Consulate General of Japan in New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170714232934/http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/japaninfo/dec2016/03.html|archive-date=2017-07-14|url-status=live|orig-year=2016}} or to hold takeaway lunches, or bento.

{{anchors|sagejū|sageju|sagejuu|sagejūbako|sagejbako|sagejuubako}}

A {{nihongo3|lit. "portable jūbako"|提重|sagejū}} or {{nihongo3||提げ重箱|sagejūbako}}, is a picnic set of jūbako in a carrier with handle.{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/57588|title=Portable Picnic Set (sagejū) with Chrysanthemums, Foliage Scroll, and Tokugawa Family Crest 18th century|website=Metropolitan Museum of Art}}

{{anchors|jikirō|jikiro}}

There is also {{nihongo3|lit. "food basket"|食籠|jikirō}}, a kind of chinese styled bowl,{{Cite web|url=https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/dictio/shikki/51sano.html|title=The Lacquer Artisan Sano Chokan|access-date=2021-08-11|website=Kyoto National Museum|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824144745/http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/dictio/shikki/51sano.html|archive-date=2018-08-24|url-status=live}} some stackable like jūbako.{{Cite book|title=Catalogue of the collection of Japanese works of art : formed between the years 1869 and 1894|last=Lawrence|first=Trevor|publisher=(privetely printed)|year=1895|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002044802859&view=1up&seq=205&skin=2021&q1=Jikir%C5%8D|editor-last=Huish|editor-first=Marcus B.|editor-link=Marcus Bourne Huish|at=p89: item 1186; p82: item 1186|language=en|author-link=Sir Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Baronet|hdl-access=free|hdl=2027/yale.39002044802859?urlappend=%3Bseq=205}}