The container for a Japanese meal does much more than hold food; it is a work of art, an appetizing display, and a demonstration of care and caring. It is nurturance in several senses. The box called the obento (or bento, adding an "o" at the beginning gives it an honorific connotation) frames its contents with culture and tradition, but also allows the cook a playground, a place where creativity as well as nutrition is offered to the recipient. The word bento is translated into English as lunch box, but that scarcely begins to describe the centrality it has in the imagination and in the production of the experience of eating what is inside.

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