Procession of the Daimyo
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Feb 1894
name: label: Donor Name
content: K. Sano
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MARRIAGE." [This comment crossed out by Chang-Su Houchins, Curator for Asian Ethnology, in 2001. She says Daimyo processions are seen in many varied occasions, not only marriages.]
label: Notes
content: Accession Card: "Collection of small figurines representing the procession of Daimio in Old Japan. From K. Samo's Exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition [Chicago World's Fair of 1893].-- O. Mason"
label: Notes
content: Set of 64 painted miniature clay dolls or fushimi-ningyo; 43 are broken, with some loose unassociated parts, ranging in size from 5.4 to 18.5 cm.. Set was intended to depict annual procession/journey of local Daimyo (feudal lord) to Edo (Tokyo). Erroneously published in Perry Collection catalogue (it is not a Perry piece), "Artifacts of Diplomacy" Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854)" by Chang-su Houchins, Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 37, 1995, entry # 124, p. 128.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 65
place: label: Place
content: Tokyo, 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: 027837
label: USNM Number
content: E168777-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Height - Object
content: 18.5 cm
label: Minimum Height - Object
content: 5.4 cm