Fan (Uchiwa; Dansen)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED AS ETHNOLOGY # 4025 IN 1867. RECATALOGING CANCELLED IN 1969. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CYLINDRICAL BAMBOO, HANDLE FINELY SPLIT TO BE SPREAD INTO THE SEMI SQUARE SHAPE ONTO WHICH IS GLUED THE PAPER SURFACES. FRONT IS PAINTED WITH THE BUST PORTRAIT OF A JAPANESE WOMAN, IN BROWNS BLUES, AND TAN. WITH IT SEVERAL INSCRIBED PLAQUES ON IT. BACK SPARSELY PAINTED WITH A FEW FLOWERS AND A STOPPERED GOURD. LOWER EDGE SLIGHTLY DAMAGED."
label: Notes
content: Woodcut artist of the print on the obverse of the fan: Utagawa Kuniyoshi; reverse is a color print of a painting by Utagawa Hiroshige II.
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 82 and 83
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: E3-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 35.2 cm
label: Width
content: 29.5 cm