Fan (Uchiwa; Dansen)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY # 4027 IN THE 1950'S, THEN RECATALOGING CANCELLED. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BAMBOO HANDLE FINELY SPLIT TO SPREAD INTO A SEMI-SQUARE SHAPE ONTO WHICH ARE GLUED THE PAPER SURFACES. FRONT PAINTED WITH BUT PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN READING A BOOK, AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF FLOWERS IN TAN AND BLUE COLORS. THERE ARE ALSO SEVERAL OTHER INSCRIBED PLAQUES. BACK SPARSELY PAINTED IN PINKS AND GREYS WITH PICTURES OF FLOWERS IN POT, GOURDS, ETC. SLIGHTLY DAMAGED WITH SPLITS ON THREE EDGES. (1969)." FROM CARD 4027: "LOANED TO NPG 1/4/78. RETURNED 1/18/79."
label: Notes
content: Note: Originally catalogued as Loo Choo fan. "Loo Choo" is an old term for the Ryukyu Islands, however fan was not made in the Ryukyus.
label: Notes
content: Woodcut artist of the print on the obverse of the fan: Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
label: Notes
content: See Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. P 78 and 79
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E5-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 34.6 cm
label: Width
content: 29.4 cm