Indigo blue: Ai-gami
notes: label: Description
content: Small glass bottle of pigment used for printing Japanese woodblocks. Paper label in English with color name as transliterated from Japanese: Indigo blue: Ai-gami; separate label with catalogue number. No cork; glass broken at top. Bottle contains paper saturated with color which suggests this may be dayflower, Tsu-yu-kusa, rather than indigo which did not come in paper form.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
label: See more items in
content: Communications
label: See more items in
content: Tokuno Gift
label: See more items in
content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.03444
label: catalog number
content: 03444
label: accession number
content: 23218
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pigment
label: Object Type
content: pigment
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 3 cm; 2 3/8 in x 1 3/16 in