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Set of five postcards (c--g) with black and white photographs of various village crafts and tools; postcards are numbered 6--10 and have lines of characters printed underneath the images. The postcards are contained in a pink envelope (a), along with a folded sheet of white paper with a block of printed text (characters) on one side (b).
Five postcards (c--g) with black and white photographs of various Inuit models, masks and tools; postcards are numbered 11--15 and have lines of characters printed underneath the images. The postcards are contained in a pink envelope (a), along with a folded sheet of white paper with a block of printed text (characters) on one side (b).
Print depicting a group of traveling men. One man is riding on a donkey(?) and another is being carried in a covered platform with a tent. There are abstract images of trees, houses, and people in the background. Print of Mishima Station (#11). This is one of a series of reproductions of the "53 Post Stations on the Tokaido Hwy." from Nihonbashi to Kyoto (Hoei-do edition). Print is matted on a piece of white-yellow paper and has an additional cover page that folds over the print. A printed inscription on the cover page reads: "MISHIMA Fog covered this posting station one hundred years ago at early dawn. The serene skill which mastered the problems of the printing-block is perfect." There are Japanese characters at the top, bottom, and side of the printed message.
Print depicting a group of people traveling across a wooden bridge. There are mountains in the background. Rows of houses are located at the foot of the mountains. This is one of a series of reproductions of the "53 Post Stations on the Tokaido Hwy," from Nihonbashi to Kyoto (Hoei-do edition). Print is matted on a piece of white-yellow paper and has an additional cover page that folds over the print. A printed inscription on the cover page reads: “ KYOTO As the Nihon-bashi in Yedo is the starting-point, so the Sanjo O-hashi in Kyoto is the final goal. The travellers [sic] in Hiroshige's days left the Nihon-bashi in the morning and arrived at Kyoto where the Mikado lived approximately fifteen days later." There are Japanese characters at the top, bottom, and side of the printed message.
Print depicting people resting under a tree. There is a path and some buildings in the distance. A bird house on a long pole is in the corner near the foreground. Print of Fukuroi Station (#27). This is one of a series of reproductions of the "53 Post Stations on the Tokaido Hwy," from Nihonbashi to Kyoto (Hoei-do edition). Print is matted on a piece of white-yellow paper and has an additional cover page that folds over the print. A printed inscription on the cover page reads: " FUKUROI The shadow of the large tree along the road is a fit location for this tea house. The four figures seem to have walked straight out of the previously mentioned novel 'Hizakurige.'" There are Japanese characters at the top, bottom, and side of the printed message.
Man or woman’s rectangular, block-printed shawl, with black geometric patterns on an off-white background. Borders at each end contain circular and striped geometric motifs. A centre rectangular panel contains repeated diamond-shaped, stylized floral patterns. Several border patterns frame the central panel on the sides. Strips of black cotton textile (4.3 cm wide) are hand-sewn at each end.
Man’s wedding shawl. Made of red and black block-printed cotton textile, heavily embroidered on all four corners with multi-coloured floral designs, abstract representations of peacocks, geometric patterns, mirrors, rickrack and beaded tassels. The designs on the four corners are worked in silk thread and are almost identical to each other, differing only in minor details and colours. Embroidered yellow stripes extend vertically and horizontally across the shawl and intersect at the centre with an embroidered diamond shaped medallion. The block printed designs on the textile form striped borders at each edge, and there is a central rectangle which contains stylized floral patterns arranged in diamond-shaped frames. The block-printed textile is pieced along one long edge (machine stitched) prior to embroidering. The back has a strip of black cotton fabric hand-sewn to each end.
Very long, narrow, black and grey textile, decorated with many horizontal rows of resist-dyed or painted red disks that are overprinted or stamped with black cross-shaped motifs, like petals of a flower. Sections woven with wool or goat hair yarns alternate with sections woven with cotton yarns. Long black fringes at each end are made by tightly twisting the warp yarns.
Block printed cotton textile, printed on both sides. Blue and red are the predominant colours. Two identical, large, rectangular panels of geometric patterning are printed on the textile. In each panel, geometric and floral designs are grouped in intersecting horizontal and vertical borders that surround, on three sides, a large central rectangle of stylized floral and geometric patterns. A strip of black cotton textile (3.5 cm wide) is sewn to one end of the textile.
A large square red cotton shawl. Bordered on four sides with wide floral multi-coloured printed bands consisting of red, white, blue, and yellow flowers with green leaves that are outlined by an inner band consisting of red outward curving arches on yelow background and an outer band consisting of red and green dots on a yellow background. Additional floral motifs on two corners consisting of two large white and one large blue flower surrounded by smaller flowers with green leaves.