Collection place: Okayama Prefecture, San'yo region Chugoku region / Culture or time period: Asian cultures - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Basket, gamakoshigo, accession number 9-22877, described as A woven basket. It is lightweight, thus, ideal for mountain work where it was used for gathering fuki, butterbur, takenoko, bamboo shoots, zenmai, fiddlehead fern tips and warabi, bracken root. It was durable enough to last 2 to 3 years in daily use.

Hearst Museum object titled Rain cape, mino, accession number 9-23016, described as Traditional Japanese rain cape or "mino" woven from "hirori" (?) and linden ("shina"). Smaller than traditional sizes of rain capes ("mini" mino).

Hearst Museum object titled Rain cape, summer mino, accession number 9-23017, described as Traditional Japanese summer rain cape or "mino" woven from "hiriro" (?) and "yamagake" (linden?). From tag: "To keep horseflies off back when working in fields/paddies.

Hearst Museum object titled Sedge, accession number 9-23147, described as Bundle of raw material, sedge, used in basket making.