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- Date
- 1922 – 1938
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 109.03.0009 a-e
- Description
- Japanese 50-Sen coins. Obverse: Cherry blossoms and Japanese characters. Reverse: Pair of phoenix, chrysanthemum, Japanese characters.
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- Title
- Coin Money
- Date
- 1922 – 1938
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 2.3 x 2.3 cm
- Description
- Japanese 50-Sen coins. Obverse: Cherry blossoms and Japanese characters. Reverse: Pair of phoenix, chrysanthemum, Japanese characters.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- money
- Japan
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.03.0009 a-e
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Commemorative Portfolio
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.06.0098
- Date
- prior to 1935
- Material
- silk; paper; ivory; cardboard; wood; ink
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0098
- Description
- An album containing reproductions of 40 mural paintings dedicated to the Japanese Emperor Meiji Tenno. The full page colour murals depict important events in his lifetime. The album is made of silk brocade reinforced with paper and help in a wooden and cardboard box made to look like a larger album…
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- Title
- Commemorative Portfolio
- Date
- prior to 1935
- Material
- silk; paper; ivory; cardboard; wood; ink
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- An album containing reproductions of 40 mural paintings dedicated to the Japanese Emperor Meiji Tenno. The full page colour murals depict important events in his lifetime. The album is made of silk brocade reinforced with paper and help in a wooden and cardboard box made to look like a larger album. The box is covered in gold brocade silk and has Japanese characters on the front. The box is held closed by two ivory clasps on one side.
- Subject
- Japan
- Emperor Meiji Tenno
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0098
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From Morse to Whyte : a dynastic bequest of Japanese treasures
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19771
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Ewen, Anne
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ew3f copy 1
- 06.1 Ew3f copy 2
- 06.1 Ew3f copy 3
- Author
- Ewen, Anne
- Responsibility
- Anne Ewen
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 34 pages : illustrations ; 28 x 21.5 cm
- Subjects
- Art
- Japan
- Pottery
- Whyte, Catharine Robb
- Morse, Edward Sylvestre
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition catalogue
- Abstract
- Pertains to Dr. Edward Sylvester Morse who travelled to Japan in 1877 and again in 1882, amassing a large collection of Japanese ceramics and other cultural objects. Part of his collection is at the Peabody Museum and the other part was a bequest to his grand-daughter Catharine Robb Whyte which now resides at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.
- Contents
- Forward by Anne Ewen, Curator of Art and Heritage - 34 colour photographs of objects presented as part of this Exhibition
- ISBN
- 978-0-920608-61-6
- Accession Number
- 2019.15
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ew3f copy 1
- 06.1 Ew3f copy 2
- 06.1 Ew3f copy 3
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Japanese women artists, 1600-1900
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25002
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1988
- Author
- Fister, Pat
- Yamamoto, Fumiko Y.
- Publisher
- Lawrence : Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
- Call Number
- 06.1 F52j
- Author
- Fister, Pat
- Yamamoto, Fumiko Y.
- Publisher
- Lawrence : Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
- Published Date
- 1988
- Physical Description
- 197 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Art
- Japan
- Japanese
- Women
- Exhibition catalogue
- Exhibitions
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history of women artists in Japan spanning 1600 to 1900
- Contents
- Noblewomen artists : Ono Ozu. Ryonen Genso -- Atelier professionals : Kiyohara Yukinobu. Sasaki Shogen -- Ukiyo-e painters : Yamazaki Ryu-jo. Inagaki Tsuru-jo -- Haiku poet-painters : "Chiyo and Kikusha : two haiku poets" / Fumiko Y. Yamamoto -- Waka poets in Kyoto : Ohashi. Kaji. Yuri. Ike Gyokuran -- Bunjin (Literati artists) : Ko Raikin. Tani Kankan -- Late Edo-period Bunjin : Tachihara Shunsa. Ema Saiko. Yoshida Shuran. Cho Koran. Tokai Okon -- Ukiyo-e painters and printmakers : Katsushika Oi. Katsushika Tatsu. Kakuju-jo. Yoshitori -- Waka poet-painters in Kyoto : Takabatake Shikibu. Otagaki Rengetsu -- Early Meiji-period Bunjin : Okuhara Seiko. Noguchi Shohin.
- Notes
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Spencer Museum of Art, Apr. 2-May 22, 1988 and the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Sept. 21-Oct. 23, 1988.
- ISBN
- 0913689254
- Accession Number
- P2019-33
- Call Number
- 06.1 F52j
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1934 – 1934
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour; on paper;
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.26
- Description
- Fabric-wrapped cardboard cover Japanese sketchbook with high-quality paper pages. All pages stacked folded over each other like an accordion. Contents include figure studies and caricatures/stylized portraits of Japanese men and women, often holding umbrella - almost all of the images of women have…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1934 – 1934
- Medium
- graphite; watercolour; on paper;
- Dimensions
- 24.2 x 18.22 cm
- Description
- Fabric-wrapped cardboard cover Japanese sketchbook with high-quality paper pages. All pages stacked folded over each other like an accordion. Contents include figure studies and caricatures/stylized portraits of Japanese men and women, often holding umbrella - almost all of the images of women have been coloured in with watercolour paint.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.09.26
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