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BagN2.1151

Tall, pail-like grass basket with a long, twined bail handle attached at the top.

Culture
Okinawan
Material
grass
Made in
Okinawa, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shokunin Ezukushi: TenN2.1131 a-h

Volume I, titled "Heaven", of a three volume set (with N2.1130, N2.1132). The volume has eight prints that illustrate various arts. All are wood block printed in basic colours of orange, black, green, white, and gold. Some pages are detached from the binding. Each print is preceded by a title page with central Japanese characters indicating what is depicted in the print. Translations are in pencil below these characters. The first print (part a) depicts five men working on a Buddha inside a building. The second (part b) depicts three men making umbrellas. The next (part c) shows a man making writing brushes in sides and a man outside using a switch on a hide. The fourth (part d) depicts four men and one woman ? making armour. Following this print is an image of people involved in the paper-making process with stacks of books and scrolls on shelves behind them (part h). The next print (part e) depicts six women spinning thread. Another, (part f) depicts three men and three women dying banners. The last print (part g) depicts four men and two women making clothes out of leather.

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper and ink
Made in
Tokyo, Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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DollN2.922 a-b

Two wood dolls (parts a-b) with cylindrical bodies. Bodies painted with landscape and deer. Heads painted in polychrome. One female (part a) and one male (part b).

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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MatN2.1015

Rectangular mat with woven pattern. The mat is woven with light and dark natural-coloured strands in lengthwise bands. There is a border of three light coloured bands on each of the long sides of the mat.

Culture
Japanese
Material
grass
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookN2.1009

Brown covered booklet with Russian translated into Japanese. Inside, there is a piece of paper reading "Russian Primer printed on/Northern Island of Japan/1861".

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BrushN2.1008

Plain with eleven characters marked down length of handle; handle has mottled surface; hair is grey-white.

Culture
Japanese
Material
hair and bamboo grass
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlockN2.1004

Rectangular wood block. One side has a full length female figure holding a branch while the other side has a sitting dog. Both sides have calligraphy.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BookN2.1003

Yellow book with several characters on the front cover, bound with string. Title page identifies the book as "Chinese Moral Maxims, with a free and verbal translation; affording examples of the grammatical structure of the language. Compiled by John Francis Davis, F.R.S. Member of the Asiatic Society. London. 1923."

Culture
Japanese
Material
paper and ink
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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FigureN2.1002

Standing cloaked figure with long hat that falls over shoulders, and pointed goatee on chin. Figure has bag on right hip with strap over left shoulder.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood, stain and paint
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Printing BlockN2.1001

Rectangular wood block with calligraphy of haiku poems on both sides. Each side prints two pages. One side has an illustration accompanying the poem which has a diagonal line going through the middle.

Culture
Japanese
Material
wood
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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