tsuitate kenbyō

Language: Japanese
Language: Japanese
Table umbrella

One-piece folding screen (jap. tsuitate) in miniature form. For use as protection when rubbing the ink on the desk. Or as part of the part of the set-up at the doll festival (hina matsuri). Presumably made of paulownia wood (jap. kiri ki), painted with pigments, partly in relief with a paste of burnt shell limestone (jap. gofun). Decoration: Plums, pines, bamboo - 'The Three Friends of Winter' (jap. shô chiku bai). The box (jap. kiribako), also made of paulownia wood, is used for storage. storage.

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
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Cataloguing data

Object type
miniatures (object genre)
Dimensions
18 x 109 x 78 mm
Current location
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Inventory number
RJM 43118
Other number(s)
RJM 1949/08

Provenance and sources

when
1st third 20th century
where
Japan
Asia -> East Asia -> Japan

when
1934-1938
who
Dirksen, Herbert von - Recipients

when
1950-06-02
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