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LanternN2.1077

Large paper lantern with bamboo frame. Loosely woven cylindrical frame with paper covering which slides up and down on a long handle. Metal candle spike in centre of base.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood, bamboo grass, paper and metal
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Votive PlaqueN2.1357

Painted wooden votive plaque known as ema (絵馬) depicting a woman and a child praying next to a shrine.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Women Enjoying Cool Evening by River Kamo at Shijo, a Triptych795/96

Rectangular, multicoloured woodcut print. Print is of three women enjoying a cool evening by the river Kamo at Shijo. One woman is lying down, drinking from a cup. One woman kneels before a bowl upon a stand. She is turned and reaching out a hand to the third woman, who is standing. In the background are white paper lanterns and a screen. Print is part of a triptych with 795/95 and 795/97.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Actor Onoe Kikugoro As O-Kaji at Gion795/65

Rectangular print with black printed outlines, painted vermilion colour and glossy black. Print is of the actor Onoe Kikugoro as the geisha O-Kaji at Gion, a district of Kyoto in Japan. He wears a kimono with a flower motif in red, yellow and green. He holds an umbrella, while a second umbrella leans at his feet. In the background is a tree and water. There are lines of Japanese script above his head, along the right side and across the bottom edge.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ScreenN2.1307

Screen with black lacquered wooden frame and two arched feet. At the centre of the screen is a circular panel with embroidered cherry blossoms in grey, white and black on beige ground over which are three evenly spaced vertical screens with black laquered wood grid frames with a grey silk screen behind each. The central panel is framed by a gold leather textured paper with a band of floral patterned silk in shades of pink and grey on light pink. The reverse is finished with a panel of the same floral silk with a separate border of this silk joined at the seam with off-white woven ribbon.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, wood, silk fibre, lacquer, metal and dye
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shiba Zōjō jiEd5.1431

Image of a human figure walking to the right side holding an umbrella over their face for protection from the snow. The figure is wearing clothing that is black and light blue with pink accents. The umbrella is white with an orange rim. Behind the figure, there is a two storey red building with a one story building next to it on the left side. In front of the figure is a tree angled upward to the top left corner. Snow is also on the tree, the roofs of the buildings and the ground. The sky is grey. The image has a thin black border. In the lower left corner, there is a circular red seal with black characters above. Along the lower left side, there are more black characters. The print is on a vertically rectangular, off-white paper piece.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PrintN2.1174

Print showing a scene with a man and a woman. The woman is resting on the floor with her body angled toward the left while her head is turned up to the right. She is holding a long white cloth in her upraised left hand and a blue mirror(?) in her right hand. Her robe has a green floral print. The man is standing on the right rolling his right sleeve up with his left hand. His head is turned down toward the left side. He is wearing a robe with a brown, grey, and black striped pattern. In the upper right corner, there is a wall with wallpaper, a window, and straw. The background is white. The print is made of two vertically rectangular pieces adhered to a horizontally rectangular paper. Each has sets of Japanese characters: the artist's signature, a circular red seal, and on the right side two circular black censor seals.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Beauty and NandinaEd5.1486

Image of a woman facing to the left side with a sliding door open behind her, showing branches above and a leafy bush with red berries below. Her black hair is tied up in a bun with multi-coloured fabric. She is wearing the following clothing from inside out: a mauve floral print on a light purple lattice work background; an alternating light blue and white arrow-feather-shaped pattern; and pink and light blue characters on a black background with a multi-coloured floral print belt on a white background. In the lower left corner are black characters. The print is vertically rectangular.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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PrintN2.1176

Two figures by the sea. The figure on the left side is a male wearing clothing that has a brown and yellow coin print on a green background. The figure on the right side is a female wearing clothing that has a green cicada ? print on a black background and a pink-beige print on a light blue background. He is bracing his feet against the ground and she is leaning back towards the ground as both of them are holding a long white cloth between them. Behind them is a blue seascape with green mountains; the sky is grey. There are black characters in each upper left corner. Each lower inner corner has a circular red seal, a circular black seal, and a vertically rectangular black seal with black characters next to them. Print is made of two vertically rectangular pieces, creating a horizontally rectangular image.

Culture
Japanese
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookmarkN2.890 a-f

Set of five bookmarks (parts a-e), with landscape scenes on the bottom left side and black characters on the top right side, packed in a paper envelope (part f). Part a shows a river bend with a tree in the foreground; it has a pink ribbon; part b shows a yellow and red building complex; it has a purple ribbon; part c shows a seascape with a downward tapering object in the foreground; it has a red ribbon; part d shows a simple seascape; it has a yellow ribbon; part e shows a hill top with a lighthouse; it has a green ribbon; and part f shows a downward tapering object within a turquoise semi-circle on the upper left side, two fish within a turquoise semi-circle on the lower right side, and white Japanese characters between the two semi-circles on a brown background.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper, ink and fibre
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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