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National Museum of Ethnology : Meiji crafts from across the sea : special exhibition of the Morse collection : exhibit plan
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24929
- Medium
- Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published)
- Published Date
- 1990
- Author
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Publisher
- Tokyo, Japan : Total Media Development Institute Co. Ltd.
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19m OS
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- Author
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Responsibility
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Publisher
- Tokyo, Japan : Total Media Development Institute Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1990
- Physical Description
- 12 pages
- Scale
- 1 / 100
- 1 / 20
- 1 / 30
- Abstract
- Pertains to the exhibit plan for the Morse Collection in March of 1990 at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan
- Contents
- 1F Plan
- 2F Plan
- B1F Plan
- A-A
- B-B
- Exhibit Case
- Large Exhibit Case
- Shelf Case
- Shadow Picture
- B1F
- Exhibit Tool
- Accession Number
- 2014.8340
- Call Number
- 06.1 N19m OS
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- National Museum of Ethnology website
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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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Honouring high places : the mountain life of Junko Tabei
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19852
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
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- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Responsibility
- Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe, translated by Yumiko Hiraki and Rieko Holtved
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 376 pages
- Abstract
- "A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei's stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and interesting to mountaineering culture. Until now, her works have been available only in Japanese, and RMB is honoured to be sharing these profound and moving stories with the English-speaking world for the first time. The collection opens on Mount Everest, where the first all-women's expedition is met with disaster but pushes on against all odds. The story then shifts to the early years of Tabei's life and reflects on her countryside childhood as a frail girl with no talent for sport, and cultural expectations that ignored her passion for mountains. With reminiscences of the early days of female climbers on Everest, the deaths of fellow mountaineers, Tabei's pursuit of Mount Tomur, a cancer diagnosis, and efforts to restore a love for nature in the surviving youth of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, this beautifully curated collection of essays captures the essence of a notable time and the strength of character of one of the 20th and 21st centuries' female mountaineering pioneers."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Author's note
- Introduction by Setsuko Kitamura
- Chapter 1 - avalanche!
- Chapter 2 - the meaning of mountains
- Chapter 3 - Annapurna III
- Chapter 4 - Mount Everest
- Chapter 5 - to the top ofthe world
- Chapter 6 - the route
- Chapter 7 - finalists
- Chapter 8 - South Col
- Chapter 9 - the summit
- Chapter 10 - endgame
- Chapter 11 - women on Everest
- Chapter 12 - Mount Tombur, Pobeda Peak
- Chapter 13 - Aconcagua
- Chapter 14 - Carstensz Pyramid
- Chapter 15 - mountains of later life
- About Junko by Masanobu Tabei
- A son's tribute by Shinya Tabei
- Beyond mountains by Setsuko Kitamura
- Life chronology
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
- Notes
- Winner of the Mountaineering History category at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards
- ISBN
- 9780771602167
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards website
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- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0023
- Description
- Japanese silk quilt for doll to sit on, backing white silk. Probably has silk batting inside, front has 4 panels ca. 11.0 wide with 3 alternating designs, grey with light brown each end, orange with orange then green with beige, 5 silk string loops sewn through quilt at 2 ends, 2 sides and middle.
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- Title
- Doll Quilt
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre
- Dimensions
- 42.0 x 42.0 cm
- Description
- Japanese silk quilt for doll to sit on, backing white silk. Probably has silk batting inside, front has 4 panels ca. 11.0 wide with 3 alternating designs, grey with light brown each end, orange with orange then green with beige, 5 silk string loops sewn through quilt at 2 ends, 2 sides and middle.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.01.0023
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- Date
- 1870 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0097
- Description
- Totally bamboo, almost square-topped stool with four bamboo corner legs. Double bamboo frame near base and triple bamboo frame at top are cut out to shape and stretch around corner legs. Each stalk which stretches as above is a single bamboo stalk having two ends which are pegged together. Pegging …
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- Title
- Stool
- Date
- 1870 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 50.2 x 31.8 x 32.3 cm
- Description
- Totally bamboo, almost square-topped stool with four bamboo corner legs. Double bamboo frame near base and triple bamboo frame at top are cut out to shape and stretch around corner legs. Each stalk which stretches as above is a single bamboo stalk having two ends which are pegged together. Pegging through legs supports stretch frame. Vertical pegs through top three frames extend into holes drilled in seat top, which is a varnished, darker bamboo. Seat top secured with pegs and glue but glue and bamboo have dried with climate and one of four seat top edges is loose.
- Subject
- households
- furniture
- Japanese
- E. S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0097
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Stacking Chest Of Drawers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.03.0122%20a%2cb
- 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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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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Miniature Table
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact102.04.0184
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0184
- Description
- Small dark brown rectangular wooden stand shaped like a table with short cabriole legs. Front and back sides of table platform carved through in floral scroll design. Sides of platform cut through in a stretched elliptic shape.
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- Title
- Miniature Table
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 3.9 x 8.3 cm
- Description
- Small dark brown rectangular wooden stand shaped like a table with short cabriole legs. Front and back sides of table platform carved through in floral scroll design. Sides of platform cut through in a stretched elliptic shape.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- Japanese
- E.S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0184
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- Date
- 1877 – 1883
- Material
- wood; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0187
- Description
- A small gourd-shaped flower holder of wickerwork with open mouth at top finished with braided rim; small butterfly or moth of coiled wicker with leaf fibre wings and small metal eyes, is attached to side of form by coiled metal spring; small loop handle near mouth; hollow bamboo tube inside.
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- Title
- Basketry Vase
- Date
- 1877 – 1883
- Material
- wood; fibre; metal
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 4.5 x 5.5 cm
- Description
- A small gourd-shaped flower holder of wickerwork with open mouth at top finished with braided rim; small butterfly or moth of coiled wicker with leaf fibre wings and small metal eyes, is attached to side of form by coiled metal spring; small loop handle near mouth; hollow bamboo tube inside.
- Subject
- households
- miniatures
- Japanese
- E.S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0187
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- Date
- 1877 – 1883
- Material
- wood; fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0188
- Description
- A small sac-shaped flower holder of brown wickerwork with open mouth at top finished with braided rim. Three-leaved vine attached to side of mouth is of leaf fibre backed with newspaper on shaped frame with coiled vine stem. Small loop on opposite side of mouth. Bamboo tube for holding water is mis…
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- Title
- Basketry Vase
- Date
- 1877 – 1883
- Material
- wood; fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 5.0 cm
- Description
- A small sac-shaped flower holder of brown wickerwork with open mouth at top finished with braided rim. Three-leaved vine attached to side of mouth is of leaf fibre backed with newspaper on shaped frame with coiled vine stem. Small loop on opposite side of mouth. Bamboo tube for holding water is missing.
- Subject
- households
- miniatures
- Japanese
- E. S. Morse
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0188
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