Digital Collections

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- Armor [lcsh]; Chinese characters -- Japan [lcsh];
- Tag with Japanese characters that came with Samurai body armor and weapons.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Tea caddy for thick tea with white glaze
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Tea caddies [lcsh]
- This Japanese-made chaire is intended to resemble a highly valued Chinese bunrin or apple-shaped tea caddy. It is paired with a cover (shifuku) of blue and gold sasazuru donsu, bearing the auspicious pine, bamboo, and plum motif which symbolizes...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tea caddy for thick tea with high shoulders
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Tea caddies [lcsh]
- This chaire is typical of the glazed containers (modeled on early imported Chinese wares) used to hold powdered thick tea. This example is fashioned in the high-shouldered (katatsuki) shape, and features a glaze typical of the Seto kilns. The silk...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Teabowl with tenmoku glaze
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]
- This chawan bears a typical black tenmoku glaze on the outside, while on the inside of the bowl a plum design emerges from the ""tortoise shell"" glaze that is typical of Taihizan style tenmoku bowls. The term "tenmoku" refers to historical...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Teabowl for thin tea
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]
- Teabowl (chawan) for thin tea, with a wide and shallow shape that allows the tea to cool more quickly in the summertime. A Chinese bell flower, also called balloon flower or kikkyo, is painted on the bowl. This motif appears from mid-summer into...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Teabowl for serving tea to a noble person
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]
- At the time a specific temae was developed to serve tea to a noble person (kinin), it was decided that all utensils, but especially the teabowl, should be used for the very first time. Since the kinin teabowl and the plain wood stand on which it...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Cloth for tea utensils
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- The damask (donsu) fabric of this dashibukusa employs a stylized pine cone motif known as karamatsu (Chinese pine) over which an emblem of stylized wisteria leaves has been embroidered in gold thread. It was presented to Nakatani Sokiku in her...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Lid rest in shape of linked-arms children
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- Lid rest, in the shape of three linked-arms Chinese children (mitsuningyo), that is part of the Rikyu Seven futaoki set.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Kanji (Japanese letter) written in calligraphy on board about a crane.
- Japanese American art [lcsh]; Calligraphy [lcsh]; Higashi Honganji Los Angeles Betsuin [lcna]; Chinese characters -- Japan [lcsh]
- Kanji reads "A voice of a crane is the best." From the Higashi-Honganji Buddist Temple in Los Angeles.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Kanji (Japanese letter) written in calligraphy on board.
- Japanese American art [lcsh]; Calligraphy [lcsh]; Higashi Honganji Los Angeles Betsuin [lcna]; Chinese characters -- Japan [lcsh];
- Kanji reads "Peace, harmony or Japan." From the Higashi Honganji Buddist Temple in Los Angeles.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Kanji (Japanese letter) written in calligraphy on board with gold border.
- Japanese American art [lcsh]; Chinese characters -- Japan [lcsh]; Calligraphy [lcsh]; Higashi Honganji Los Angeles Betsuin [lcna];
- Translation: "like" or "to look like." From the Higashi Honganji Buddist Temple in Los Angeles.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Kanreki cap (e-boshi) and vest (chanchanko).
- Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Clothing and dress [lcsh]
- The kanreki celebrates the completion of five Chinese zodiac cycles and the beginning of an individual's second childhood. In the lunar calendar, the passage of each of the five elements -- wood, fire, earth, metal, and water -- with each of twelve...
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Rinse water container
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- The classic, understated design and subdued color of this vessel complements its humble function. The shape of this kensui is called efugo, named after a similar container designed for feeding hawks. Though kensui are also crafted of ceramic or...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Cloth for tea utensils with blue ground
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- Kobukusa are small, square, silk cloths placed between tea utensils and the hand or floor. They are sometimes used to protect the hands from heat when a non raku-style teabowl (e.g., Hagi, Karatsu, Ido) is chosen for thick tea (koicha) service....
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Fresh-water jar in bentwood
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- The use of bentwood (magemono) for this finely crafted mizusashi is understood to embody a "fading to nothing" - the notion that the container is effectively invisible. Magemono mizusashi are used with utensils of Chinese origin or Japanese wares...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Blue and white Sometsuke fresh water jar
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- This fresh water container, in the style of Chinese ceramics, creates a strong sense of formality. The use of this fresh water jar would be limited to utensil stands (tana, nagaita, or daisu).
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Stand for tenmoku-style teabowl
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]
- Tenmoku teabowls (chawans) - either historical Chinese (karamono) originals or those modeled on them - usually rest on a lacquer stand, either formal black shin nuri as shown here or in a more decorative style. This is partly because they have a...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection