Bookshelf Cabinet "Shodana"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1860
label: Collection Date
content: 1860
name: label: Donor Name
content: First Japanese Mission To The USA
notes: label: Notes
content: Black lacquered shelf cabinet, decorated with gold and silver "makie" (sprinkled dust) design in relief of flying cranes and plum blossoms. Used for storing books, stationary, and other writing paraphernalia, also for placing ornamental objects. Note: originally cataloged as "lacquered case of drawers". From cards: "black lacquered shelf cabinet, decorated with gold and silver makie-(sprinkle or strewn gold or silver dust) design in relief of flying cranes and plum blossoms. The crane symbolizes thousand years of life and the plum blossom is an emblem of vigor and courage as the first spring flower. The plum blossom is also associated with the literati. Used for storing books stationery, and other writing paraphernalia, also for placing ornamental objects. From card [14188X]: Misidentified as part of the Perry collection in several SI ethnology collection records. Corrected as an item included in the First Japanese Mission gifts to the President of the U.S. in 1860, 1979; and further verified with additional sources of information, 1984, by CSH. References: accession paper for #199,043; various published Japanese lists of articles presented to the American Expedition Party on March 24, 1854, at Yokohama, and June 9 at Shimoda; Man'en gannen kem-Bei shisetsu shiryō shūsei (Collection of historical records relating to the 1860 First Japanese Mission to the United States). Tokyo: Kanama shobo, [1954].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 60A00001
label: USNM Number
content: E14188-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cabinet
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 86 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 38 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 91 cm