Tycoon's Robe Chest, Raised Gold Lacquer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1891
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Horace Capron
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ROBE CHEST, FORMERLY BELONGING TO THE TYKOON; IT BEARS HIS CREST OF THE THREE LOTUS LEAVES WITHIN A CIRCLE. THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST REPRESENTATIVE PIECES OF THE WORK OF OLD JAPANESE ARTISTS EXTANT." QUOTE FROM GEN. CAPRON'S COLLECTION OF JAPANESE WORKS OF ART. P. 27 (IN THE FILE "JAPAN"). LENT TO THE SACKLER GALLERY MAY 3, 1996. RETURNED JAN. 11, 2000.
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: 13 Jun 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E95472-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Chest
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36.8 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 62.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 45.7 cm