Screen 6 Panels
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1891
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Horace Capron
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Shows Costumes of the Three Ruling Classes: In a narrow black lacquered frame with brass mountings and small gold flowered grey silk surrounding grounds. The center of each taken up with a large painting on silk showing the regulation robes of the three Ruling Classes: 1. (left) Mikado [Emperor] and wife, essentially red and white robes with gold crowns, plus added decorations. Double eyebrow marks showing Royal descent. 2. (center) Tycoon [Shogun] and Consort, he in grey-green robe and square black hat, she in multicolored robe edged in white and the double eyebrow, though he is not of Royal descent. 3. (right) Daimio [Daimyo or lord] and wife, essentially black robes with flower patterns. Backing of screen is paper, which has some holes and hinges are broken. Refer to a pamphlet: "General Capron Collection of Japanese Works of Art", deposited at the Smithsonian Institution, 1883, p. 23."
label: Notes
content: Note: In the Edo Period of Japan, the word Taikun was used as a diplomatic title designating the Shogun of Japan in relations with foreign countries, as an attempt to convey that the shogun was more important than the Japanese Emperor. A modified version of this word appears in English as "tycoon".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jun 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: 010972
label: USNM Number
content: E96876-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Screen