Planter "Uekibachi"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CENTENNIAL EX., 1876. SETO STONE WARE COVERED WITH A ROYAL BLUE GLAZE. FORM: A RECTANGULAR VESSEL WITH ALMOST VERTICAL SIDES AND ENDS, WITH A HEAVY, FLANGED RIM. IT RESTS UPON FANCY LEGS, ONE AT EACH CORNER. ON THE TOP OF THE RIM IS A GREEK FRET IN WHITE ENAMEL ON A DEEP BLUE GROUND. THE BOTTOM IS PERFORATED WITH TWO CIRCULAR HOLES AN INCH OR MORE IN DIAMETER. LISTED AS PT. OF THE PERRY COLLECTION IN ERROR IN: 1968 SMITHSONIAN JAPAN EXPEDITION EXHIBIT CATALOG; ETHNOLOGY CATALOG BOOK#1; AND IN ACC. PAPER, #199,043. LABEL ON SPECIMENS: 326 PERRY SHOULD BE REMOVED. THE EXTERIOR DECORATED WITH INCENSE SYMBOLS (GENJI KO-ZU) IN WHITE AGAINST BLUE ENAMEL GROUND. EACH SET OF VERTICAL LINES REPRESENTS CERTAIN NUMBERS OF INCENSE PACKETS AND VARIOUS COMBINATIONS, ORIGINALLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCENSE CEREMONY. GENJI KO-ZU SYMBOLS CORRESPOND TO THE NUMBER OF CHAPTERS IN THE TALE OF GENJI. REF.: THE ELEMENTS OF JAPANESE DESIGN, BY JOHN W. DOWER. NEW YORK & TOKYO: WALKER/WEATHERHILL, 1971. - CSH [CHANG-SU HOUCHINS] 6-21-[19]85"
label: Notes
content: Per note on catalogue card and with artifact itself (dated 6/1985), Chang-su Houchins doubts that this is from the Perry collection, and did not include it in her publication on the Perry collection. Catalogue card lists it as part of 1876 Centennial material.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E326-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Planter