Playing Cards And Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Apr 1965
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Yoshio Noma
label: Donor Name
content: Mr. Yoshio Noma
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A. Pack of 199 playing cards. Cardboard. 100 painted with seated figure in polychrome and Japanese script in black; 99 painted with Japanese script in black only. All backs and borders painted silver. B. Wooden box for above pack of cards. Rectangular exterior painted black. Interior divided into 2 equal compartments. Worm eaten and one side of base missing. 13.9 cm. H.; 15.2 cm. L. 11 cm. W. C. Lid for above box. Rectangular wooden box which covers top and sides of box. Exterior painted black. il.9 cm. E.; 15.2 cm. L. U cm. W.." Cards formerly on exhibit in NHB Exhibit Hall 7, case 62, where label identified as: "Poem Playing Cards. One card bears a poet's picture and the first two lines of a well-known poem. They player matches that card with those containing additional lines of the same poem. Before 1868, Chinese poem cards were used in Japan."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 25
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 230671
label: USNM Number
content: E402749-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Playing Card / Box