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 # 4026 IN THE 1950'S, THEN RECATALOGING CANCELLED. CANCELLED NUMBER, IN BRACKETS, REMAINS ON OBJECT.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BAMBOO HANDLE FINELY SPLIT TO SPREAD INTO THE SEMI-SQUARE SHAPE ONTO WHICH ARE GLUED THE PAPER SURFACES. FRONT PAINTED ALL OVER WITH A SCENE OF A JAPANESE MAN WITH FAN AND TWO SWORDS, AND TWO WOMEN AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF WATER AND A SHORE. BACK SPARSELY PAINTED WITH SEMI-CIRCULAR FAN SHAPES OF SEVERAL TYPES OF UTENSILS. IN PINK COLORS. SEVERAL INSCRIPTIONS ON THE PAINTINGS." FROM CARD 4026: "LOANED TO NPG 1/4/78. RETURNED 1/18/79."
label: Notes
content: Note: Originally catalogued as Loo Choo fan. "Loo Choo" is an old term for the Ryukyu Islands, however fan was not made in the Ryukyus.
label: Notes
content: Woodcut artist of the print on the obverse of the fan: Utagawa Kunisada (a.k.a. Utagawa Tokoyuni III); reverse - artist is Utagawa Kunitsuna 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 76 and 77
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jun 2016
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: E4-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fan
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 34.5 cm
label: Width
content: 28.8 cm