Furoshiki

Museum number:
9-5640
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Cover (textile); white crepe square; three children plyaing--two spinning tops, one with fan; butterfly above; peonies and waterfall beyond fence, magnolia in bud on right; unlined, edges at top and bottom hemmed. This is a furoshiki used to wrap a boy’s top (it is not a fukusa).
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Materials:
Paint (coating)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Furoshiki, accession number 9-5640, described as Cover (textile); white crepe square; three children plyaing--two spinning tops, one with fan; butterfly above; peonies and waterfall beyond fence, magnolia in bud on right; unlined, edges at top and bottom hemmed. This is a furoshiki used to wrap a boy’s top (it is not a fukusa).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Furoshiki, accession number 9-5640, described as Cover (textile); white crepe square; three children plyaing--two spinning tops, one with fan; butterfly above; peonies and waterfall beyond fence, magnolia in bud on right; unlined, edges at top and bottom hemmed. This is a furoshiki used to wrap a boy’s top (it is not a fukusa).

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