Battledore, "Hagoita"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Oct 2014
name: label: Donor Name
content: Yoshitoku Company, Ltd.
notes: label: Notes
content: Wood battledore with a 3 dimensional cloth depiction of a man in a light blue gray hat and kimono and a gold coat. He is holding a gold paper fan with a design of a flower cart on it. The reverse is a painted sun and bamboo. The object is a battledore, which were originally for a game but these elaborately decorated ones are usually displayed in glass cases. This one was made by the Yoshitoku doll company of Tokyo, which was founded in 1711, and was responsible for the restoration of NMNH's “Miss Japan” friendship doll (Catalog No. E340126) in 1983. In April 2014, representatives of the company were visiting Dr. Denny Gulick, the grandson of the originator of the Japan American doll exchange (of which Miss Japan is one example). At this meeting, they presented this doll as a gift to the NMNH, represented by Barbara Watanabe.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2016
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: 2070846
label: USNM Number
content: E433943-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game Paddle
physicalDescription: label: Height
content: 49 cm
label: Width
content: 11 cm