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And Scabbard Dagger
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- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0056 a,b
- Description
- A long straight knife with fluted wooden handle and scabbard ornately trimmed with brass. (a) dagger, short, narrow, pointed, double edged steel blade with small, dark, fluted wooden handle. Blade guard, cast of brass with raised curlicue design, turns upward at sides, handle tip of cast brass wit…
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- Title
- And Scabbard Dagger
- Date
- 1850 – 1920
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 1.7 x 3.3 x 24.5 cm
- Description
- A long straight knife with fluted wooden handle and scabbard ornately trimmed with brass. (a) dagger, short, narrow, pointed, double edged steel blade with small, dark, fluted wooden handle. Blade guard, cast of brass with raised curlicue design, turns upward at sides, handle tip of cast brass with similar design and small lug with hole through at one side Note: blade guard loose; wooden handle cracked along length; blade pitted. (b) scabbard, narrow and straight, made of two pieces of wood held together by two rings of heavy cast brass with raised floral motifs, becoming oval medallions on one side with cast relief of dragon like figures. Cast brass bands at mouth and tip repeat dragon floral motif of other two bands and have floral motif cut through exposing pebbly stone inlay in wood. Brass ring near top with small brass loop on one side.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0056 a,b
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And Scabbard Knife
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- Date
- 1850 – 1935
- Material
- metal; shell; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0060 a,b
- Description
- Knife with carved pistol grip handle and flame like carved piece at mouth of wooden scabbard. (a) knife, thin, curved, pointed steel blade with handle carved of greenish tortoiseshell ? shaped like a simple pistol grip. Deep single groove incised at each side at top near hilt. Blade joined to hand…
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- Title
- And Scabbard Knife
- Date
- 1850 – 1935
- Material
- metal; shell; wood
- Dimensions
- 4.6 x 2.6 x 33.8 cm
- Description
- Knife with carved pistol grip handle and flame like carved piece at mouth of wooden scabbard. (a) knife, thin, curved, pointed steel blade with handle carved of greenish tortoiseshell ? shaped like a simple pistol grip. Deep single groove incised at each side at top near hilt. Blade joined to handle with roughly formed collar of grey metal. Note: hairline cracks in handle along grain, blade pitted and rusted. (b) scabbard, simple, slightly curved, wood with hoof like ebony tip. Band of tortoiseshell ? at opening carved in shape of flame or flowing leaf sticking out to one side. Round hole drilled through top, five thin lines incised across wood spaced evenly along length of scabbard. Small patches of glossy black material in a few places, and a black colour in the grain of the wood indicate that the wood may have been once enamelled black
- Subject
- warfare
- fighting
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0060 a,b
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The Canadian oral history reader
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Llewellyn, Kristina R.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press,
- Call Number
- 08.2 L77c
- Author
- Llewellyn, Kristina R.
- Responsibility
- edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press,
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 388 pages ; 23 cm
- Series
- Carleton library series ; 231
- Subjects
- Canada
- Indians
- First Nations
- Japanese
- Museums
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Partial contents: 1. Methodology for recording oral histories in the aboriginal community -- 8. Oral history, narrative strategies, and Native American historiography -- 13. Narrative wisps if the Ochekiwi Sipi past : a journey in rocovering collective memories -- 14. I can hear Lois now : corrections to my story of the internment of Japanese Canadians
- ISBN
- 9780773544963
- Accession Number
- P2015-09-10
- Call Number
- 08.2 L77c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1850 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0705 a,b
- Description
- Pair chopsticks with four sided handles, narrowing to dowel like handling tips. Ideogram on each handle, as well as floral decoration which joins when two sticks set beside each other.
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- Title
- Chopsticks
- Date
- 1850 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 0.5 x 19.3 cm
- Description
- Pair chopsticks with four sided handles, narrowing to dowel like handling tips. Ideogram on each handle, as well as floral decoration which joins when two sticks set beside each other.
- Subject
- households
- kitchen
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0705 a,b
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Crows, cranes & camellias : the natural world of Ohara Koson 1877 - 1945
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Newland, Amy Reigle, Jan Perree, Robert Schaap
- Publisher
- Leiden : Hotei Publishing
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ne42c
- Responsibility
- Amy Reigle Newland, Jan Perree, Robert Schaap
- Publisher
- Leiden : Hotei Publishing
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- Description: 224 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
- Abstract
- Crows, Cranes and Camellias: the Natural World of Ohara Koson 1877-1945 is the first publication in a Western language to discuss his corpus of work, and it has drawn upon the private Jan Perree collection (now housed in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) for inspiration. First published In 2001, this new edition features an additional chapter on Koson's oeuvre and designs which have been discovered since the original publication of Crows, Cranes and Camellias. Including an overview of Koson's life and artistic career, augmented by a checklist of the majority of his work, select seals and signatures, this book is a valuable source for Koson collectors. --Book Jacket.
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A flock of myriad hues : the enduring art of Ohara Koson
- Notes to the catalogue
- Catalogue
- Changes and observations
- Notes to the checklist
- Checklist
- Addendum
- Signatures & seals
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 978-9004181069
- Accession Number
- p2019-10
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ne42c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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East-West interchanges in American art : "a long and tumultuous relationship"
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14119
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Mills, Cynthia
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 M61e
- Author
- Mills, Cynthia
- Responsibility
- Cynthia Mills, Lee Glazer, and Amelia A. Goerlitz, editors
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 289 p. : col. ill.
- Notes
- "The East-West Interchanges in American Art Symposium was convened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on October 1-2, 2009. It is one of a series of Terra Foundation for American Art symposia on American Art in a Global Context. The Smithsonian American Art Museum organized the symposium in partnership with the Freer Sackler Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program." Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781935623083
- Accession Number
- 8201
- Call Number
- 06.1 M61e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Finding Japan : early Canadian encounters with Asia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14638
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Shannon, Anne
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Victoria ; Calgary : Heritage
- Call Number
- 02.1 Sh2f
- Author
- Shannon, Anne
- Responsibility
- Anne Shannon
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Victoria ; Calgary : Heritage
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 240 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Immigration
- Japanese
- Morse, Edward Sylvestre
- Nitobe Inazo
- Van Horne, William
- Notes
- "Edited by Lana Okerlund"--T.p. verso
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9781927051559
- Accession Number
- 2015.8541
- Call Number
- 02.1 Sh2f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The life of animals in Japanese art
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24998
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Singer, Robert T. (editor)
- Kawai, Masatomo (editor)
- Publisher
- Washington, District of Columbia : National Gallery of Art ; Tokyo, Japan : The Japan Foundation ; [Los Angeles, California] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Princeton, New Jersey : In association with Princeton University Press,
- Call Number
- 06.1 Si6t O.S.
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- Responsibility
- Robert T. Singer
- Masatomo Kawai
- Publisher
- Washington, District of Columbia : National Gallery of Art ; Tokyo, Japan : The Japan Foundation ; [Los Angeles, California] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Princeton, New Jersey : In association with Princeton University Press,
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xix, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits
- Subjects
- Japan
- Japanese
- Exhibitions
- Art
- History
- Abstract
- A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuries. Few countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the country's unique spiritual heritage, rich literary traditions, and currents in popular culture, Japanese artists have long expressed admiration for animals in sculpture, painting, lacquerwork, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and woodblock prints. Real and fantastic creatures are meticulously and beautifully rendered, often with humor and whimsy. This beautiful book celebrates this diverse range of work, from ancient fifth-century clay sculpture to contemporary pieces. The catalog is organized into themes, including the twelve animals of the Japanese zodiac; animals in Shinto and Buddhism; animals and samurai; land animals, winged creatures, and creatures of the river and sea; and animals in works of humor and parody. Exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (05.05.-28.07.2019) / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (08.09.-08.12.2019).
- Contents
- Prefaces / Robert T. Singer, Kawai Masatomo -- A place for animals in Japanese letters : beasts and beasties - pests, partners, and pets / Tom Hare -- Cultivating compassion and accruing merit : animal release rites during the Edo period / Barbara R. Ambros -- All creatures great and small : Tokugawa Japan and its animals / Federico Marcon -- Plates -- Checklist of works exhibited in Los Angeles.
- Notes
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Life of Animals in Japanese Art" held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 5-July 28, 2019, and the exhibition "Every Living Thing: Animals in Japanese Art" held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, September 8-December 8, 2019.
- ISBN
- 9780691191164
- Accession Number
- P2019-32
- Call Number
- 06.1 Si6t O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website of exhibition at National Gallery of Art
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Medicine Cabinet
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.03.0126
- Date
- 1850 – 1880
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0126
- Description
- Japanese chest of dark, varnished wood with many drawers of various sizes, each carved with Japanese symbols painted red. Drawers have small brass ring pulls with small round backing plates. Drawers fit into box-like cubby holes. Fourteen drawers in all. Two sliding lid panels on top, cover compar…
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- Title
- Medicine Cabinet
- Date
- 1850 – 1880
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 24.0 x 56.0 cm
- Description
- Japanese chest of dark, varnished wood with many drawers of various sizes, each carved with Japanese symbols painted red. Drawers have small brass ring pulls with small round backing plates. Drawers fit into box-like cubby holes. Fourteen drawers in all. Two sliding lid panels on top, cover compartments beneath. Contents of drawers and compartments see Source Document.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Japanese
- E. S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0126
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Practice Sword
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0063
- Description
- Light brown varnished, one piece carved wood sword handle carved in swirl design with leaf butt chipped at blade end blade double edged, but not sharp
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- Title
- Practice Sword
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 2.4 x 65.8 cm
- Description
- Light brown varnished, one piece carved wood sword handle carved in swirl design with leaf butt chipped at blade end blade double edged, but not sharp
- Subject
- fighting
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0063
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0230
- Description
- Nearly square black lacquered tray with short straight sides and flat horizontal lip tapering at corners. Gold lacquer design of seven circles, approx. 5 cm diam, each made up of a different wreath formed by leaves, branches and blossoms of various flowers tinted in colour, iris, chrysanthemum, …
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- Title
- Serving Tray
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 1.6 x 23.2 x 25.8 cm
- Description
- Nearly square black lacquered tray with short straight sides and flat horizontal lip tapering at corners. Gold lacquer design of seven circles, approx. 5 cm diam, each made up of a different wreath formed by leaves, branches and blossoms of various flowers tinted in colour, iris, chrysanthemum, peach.
- Subject
- households
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.0230
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Stacking Chest Of Drawers
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0122 a,b
- Description
- Two light weight wood stacking chests with two drawers each. Chests are fastened together by a rectangular metal latch (23 x 8) on each side which slides up to hook onto two metal prongs placed at the bottom of the chest above. Each corner is reinforced by a metal covering. Oval shaped brown metal …
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- Title
- Stacking Chest Of Drawers
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 41.0 x 94.0 cm
- Description
- Two light weight wood stacking chests with two drawers each. Chests are fastened together by a rectangular metal latch (23 x 8) on each side which slides up to hook onto two metal prongs placed at the bottom of the chest above. Each corner is reinforced by a metal covering. Oval shaped brown metal plates (12.5 cm. long with straight length-wise sides) decorate the bottom front of each chest. Each drawer has a lock placed in the center of a 10.5 cm. brown metal disc with silver metal rim and center. Discs extend over upper top edge of drawers by about 3 cm., two shiny brown metal handles on each drawer. Each of the handles is fastened to inside of drawer by a wing-type (or butterfly) fastener rather than screws.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Japanese
- E. S. Morse;
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0122 a,b
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The story of the Mount Alberta ice axe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14825
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Haga, Junko
- Publisher
- Japan :
- Call Number
- PN H34
- Author
- Haga, Junko
- Publisher
- Japan :
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 35 pages, ill.
- Subjects
- Alberta, Mount
- Japanese
- Notes
- Book is written entirely in Japanese, accompanying document has English text translation, as well as a letter from the author.
- Accession Number
- AC625
- Call Number
- PN H34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Tamamono : from the collection of the museum of modern art, Saitama
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14645
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Saitama-ken, Japan : The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
- Call Number
- 06.1 T15
- Responsibility
- edited by the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Gen Umezu, Shizuo Okubo, Hisako Okoshi, Miyako Hirayama ; translated by Kikuko Ogawa
- Publisher
- Saitama-ken, Japan : The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 171 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Artists
- Artists books
- Japanese
- Notes
- Includes index
- Text is in both Japanese and English
- Accession Number
- 2015.8546
- Call Number
- 06.1 T15
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0060
- Description
- Footed, bulbous, lidded container with copper lining, green from corrosion, and gold black speckled background throughout, with gold lacquer floral vine decoration through. Lid has knob and sits inside short jar rim.
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- Title
- Tea Jar
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 7.1 x 6.5 cm
- Description
- Footed, bulbous, lidded container with copper lining, green from corrosion, and gold black speckled background throughout, with gold lacquer floral vine decoration through. Lid has knob and sits inside short jar rim.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.0060
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- Date
- 1850 – 1890
- Material
- wood; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 108.02.0003
- Description
- Carved, ivory coloured, Noh Japanese theatre mask. Grimacing face, with carved teeth and cavity, nostrils and eyes. Hemp hair held in place by holes drilled through forehead. Two holes in ears where cord passes to hold mask on. Triangle and calligraphy incised on back of mask, soiled and stained, …
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- Title
- Theatre Mask
- Date
- 1850 – 1890
- Material
- wood; fibre
- Dimensions
- 22.0 x 8.0 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- Carved, ivory coloured, Noh Japanese theatre mask. Grimacing face, with carved teeth and cavity, nostrils and eyes. Hemp hair held in place by holes drilled through forehead. Two holes in ears where cord passes to hold mask on. Triangle and calligraphy incised on back of mask, soiled and stained, paint loss over face surface.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.02.0003
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With Scabbard Cutlass
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- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0049 a,b
- Description
- A cutlass with wooden handle and scabbard trimmed with brass. (a) cutlass, knife with short thick curved blade inlaid with ornate silver organic and geometric pattern on one side. Thick brass S-shaped guard at hilt, handle of dark brown wood with inlaid brass diamond shape on either side, and tu…
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- Title
- With Scabbard Cutlass
- Date
- 1850 – 1925
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 2.3 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- A cutlass with wooden handle and scabbard trimmed with brass. (a) cutlass, knife with short thick curved blade inlaid with ornate silver organic and geometric pattern on one side. Thick brass S-shaped guard at hilt, handle of dark brown wood with inlaid brass diamond shape on either side, and turned brass cap at ends with floral medallion at tip. (b) scabbard, slightly curved wooden scabbard shaped to fit blade. Wide brass band at mouth has moth shaped plaque, with incised features, standing out from one side. Tip covered with wide brass band and small knob at end. Single narrow brass band girds middle of scabbard, with indication on wood that there may have been another band at one time .
- Subject
- warfare
- hunting
- fighting
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.05.0049 a,b
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