Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina Yesuke Aida and their backsides provide translation

and their backsides provide translation and other practical (and also poetic) information

served up in a consomme cup decorated with what I'd guess is meant to be a coat of arms

The patiently waiting

Pencil and watercolor on lined paper

I purchased it from a Boston-based tramp art collector and author in the process of selling off some 50 years accumulation

Minimalist Old Sliding Glass Wooden Bee Box with Great Patina Yesuke Aida and their backsides provide translationThis is a very simple one as far as bee boxes go nothing more than a four sided box with two plates of glass held in grooves, to slide open or closed for catch or release. There are rows of old nail holes in the wood, so perhaps there was once some sort of frame around it, but maybe more likely the wood was repurposed from something else. I love these old bee boxes for the way that they embody individualistic solutions to the problem at hand (in this