baking mold with Mount Fuji
date: label: date made
content: early 20th century
notes: label: Description
content: Known as “sembei kata” in Japanese, this baking mold is used to bake the cookie wafer to be folded into the fortune cookie shape that we know today. Engraved on the object is an illustration of Mount Fuji and the Japanese letters for “Japan tea.” It was donated to the Smithsonian by Gary T. Ono in honor of the Suyeichi and Owai Okamura Family and the Benkyodo Company.
label: Description
content: Commissioned by Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park’s Japanese Tea Garden, the Benkyodo Company produced the first modern fortune cookie in the early 1900s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gary Ono in honor of the Suyeichi & Owai Okamura family of Benkyodo Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0091.03
label: accession number
content: 2010.0091
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0091.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: baking mold
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 mm x 460 mm x 100 mm; 2 3/16 in x 18 1/8 in x 3 15/16 in