Bird, Bee, and Blossoms.
date: label: Associated Date
content: 1876
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wood block, Bird, Wisteria, and Bee.Color block, two-sided. Block capped with wood at both ends. Original artist Koga; block cutter/engraver Rokuzaemon MIYATA. with oval paper label "No. 5" on recto. Remnants of block-cutter's guide print on both sides. Pencil note on margin of guide print, recto:" artist/Koga/Eizo Kondo" in R. P. Tolman's hand. Kondo gave two blank wood blocks for Japanese exhibit in 1917, and he must have looked over these blocks and identified the artist. See GA*10978.01-.02
label: Description (Brief)
content: Ink inscription on edge of block with paper label: Dept Int/260898/51116.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Transfer from Bureau of Education Museum, Dept. of the Interior through Anthropology, NHB. Originally from Japanese exhibition at Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Birds
label: Subject
content: Flowers
label: related event
content: Centennial Exposition
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.09437
label: catalog number
content: 09437
label: accession number
content: 51116
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Block
label: Object Name
content: wood block, Japanese
label: Other Terms
content: Block; Wood Cut
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 43.5 cm x 27 cm; 17 1/8 in x 10 5/8 in