Jūbako
Japanese food box
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Jūbako (重箱; lit. "tiered boxes") are tiered boxes used to hold and present food in Japan.[1] The boxes are often used to hold osechi, foods traditional to the Japanese New Year,[2] or to hold takeaway lunches, or bento.

A sagejū (提重, lit. "portable jūbako") or sagejūbako (提げ重箱), is a picnic set of jūbako in a carrier with handle.[3]
There is also jikirō (食籠, lit. "food basket"), a kind of chinese styled bowl,[4] some stackable like jūbako.[5]
Gallery
- An 18th-century wood, gold and silver foil jūbako
- Sagejū
- Jikirō
- Square box
- Hexagonal box
- Osechi dishes in a box
See also
- Tiffin carrier: tiered lunchbox of India, Pakistan and the Caribbean