Decorated Letter Paper (Moyo Zuri Bensen; Hosho E Hankiri)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LADIES FANCY NOTE PAPER. CONTAINS SILK FIBERS AND IS EMBOSSED OR PRINTED WITH FLORAL DESIGNS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND PEONIES IN YELLOW AND ROSE COLOR PLUS GREEN LEAVES. IN EACH NO. OF THE SERIES TO 296, ALL SHEETS THE SAME (EXCEPT ONE) SO LATER ADDITION OF AN "A & B" APPARENTLY NO REASON. EXTRA DOUBLE SHEET OF SCRIPT APPEARS TO GO WITH EACH PACKAGE. ONCE IN DIV. OF GRAPHIC ARTS, WHERE NUMBERED: 10,216. 5/1969 IN DIV. OF TEXTILES. 10/79 RETURNED TO ANTHROP. THE PLAIN WOODEN BOXES IN WHICH THESE PAPERS APPARENTLY ORIGINALLY CAME ARE TOO TIGHT SO HAVE BEEN KEPT SEPARATELY. R. ELDER."
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 49 and 50. E292 - 296 consist of -600 sheets in 10 packets.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Dec 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E294-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Paper
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 17.5 cm
label: Width
content: 48 cm