Fan (Uchiwa; Dansen)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL BAMBOO HANDLE FINELY SPLIT INTO THIN STRIPS TO SPREAD INTO A SEMI-SQUARE SHAPE ONTO WHICH ARE GLUED THE PAPER SURFACES. FRONT PAINTED, ALL OVER WITH A SHORE SCENE, OF MEN CARRYING TWO WOMEN ON THE SHOULDERS FROM BOATS TO THE SHORE, WITH OTHERS BRINGING IN OTHER POSSESSIONS. IN TAN COLORS AGAINST THE BLUE WATER. SEVERAL INSCRIPTIONS ON IT. BACK TWO ROPES WITH MEN AND WOMEN ON EACH, AS IF WERE PULLING A BOAT INTO SHORE? PLUS INSCRIPTIONS. TWO BREAKS IN THE EDGE NEAR THE BOTTOM. LOANED TO THE NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 3/11/75. LOAN RETURNED FROM NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 4/7/77."
label: Notes
content: Woodcut artist of the prints on the obverse and reverse of the fan: Utagawa Hiroshige I.
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 80 and 81
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
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: E25-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 34.6 cm
label: Width
content: 29.4 cm