Brush Holder (Fude-Tate)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THOUGH CALLED A GOBLET IT PROBABLY WAS USED AS A BRUSH HOLDER. CYLINDRICAL OPEN SECTION OF BAMBOO. WITH INCISED DECORATIONS OF TWO TURTLES AND A CIRCLE WITH A JAPANESE WRITING CHARACTER (MEANING FURO-ETERNAL YOUTH). TURTLES MEAN GOOD LUCK. SET ON AN OCTAGONAL WOODEN BASE. JAN.1969 LOANED TO JAPAN SOCIETY N.Y.C. 1969 LARGE SPLIT WAS REPAIRED IN THE ANTH.LAB."
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 98
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E166-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Brush Holder
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 14.5 cm
label: Depth
content: 9.5 cm