Digital Collections

- Wooden recipe box.
- Woodwork [lcsh]; Uyemura, George [aacr2]; High school students [lcsh];
- Recipe box made by George Uyemura for his sister Mildred in junior high or high school shop class. Most likely made pre-World War II.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wooden puzzle box with painting of Mount Fuji.
- Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Tsukamoto, Ito [aacr2];
- This box was brought from Japan by Ito Tsukamoto on her last visit in 1934.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Wood storage box used by the Masatoshi Abe family during internment at Gila River Relocation Center [set of 2].
- Gila River Relocation Center [lcna]; Concentration Camps -- Arizona [lcsh]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Abe, Masatoshi [aacr2];
- Family number 8696 is painted on the box.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Walnut jewelry box.
- Concentration camps -- Colorado [lcsh]; Granada Relocation Center [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Woodwork [lcsh];
- Jewelry box most likely made during internment at Granada Relocation Center. Bottom of box is inscribed with "4B" and an "S" design.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Teabowl with brown, black, and yellow glaze
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]
- This chawan is a classic example of Zeze ware originating from the Kagero-en kiln. The waisted shape is relatively formal, and the piece has been decorated with an abstract brown, black and yellow glaze typical of the genre. Zeze is known as one of...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Teabowl with black Seto glaze
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]
- This chawan is finished with a black Seto glaze that provides a feeling of formality and elegance. The chawan is accompanied by a paulownia box bearing calligraphy that describes its provenance.
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Teabowl in Shigaraki style
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]; Shigaraki pottery [lcsh]
- Crafted in classic Shigaraki style, this chawan presents a rustic appearance appropriate to more intimate and informal settings. The piece is provided with a paulownia box bearing calligraphy that describes its provenance.Shigaraki ware...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Teabowl for thin tea with folded crane design
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]
- This small and charming bowl was crafted by well known Kyoto potter, Kyuho, who often worked with the 14th generation Head Master of the Urasenke Tradition of Tea, Sekiso Tantansai Mugensai (1893-1964). The protective box for this teabowl has...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Teabowl for summer
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Drinking vessels [lcsh]
- Hagi ware is thought to originate from the work of two Korean potters, Ri Shakko and Ri Kei, who founded the kiln ( Fukagawa-gama) under the patronage of the Mori clan, sometime around 1604. This teabowl was created by the 12th generation master,...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tea whisk and sheath
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Implements, utensils, etc. [lcsh]
- When transporting utensils to the site of an outdoor tea gathering, the tea whisk (chasen) is stored in a lacquered wooden sheath (chasenzutsu) inside of the tea utensil box (chabako). It is removed from the sheath during the tea procedure and used...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tea utensil box
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]
- Chabako are used for a variety of seasonal tea procedures (temae) designed for outdoor presentation. The host outfits the box with a selection of all the utensils necessary to prepare tea for the guests. Sets of matching covers (shifuku) are used...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tea scoop named Zuiun (Auspicious Clouds)
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Scoops [lcsh]
- This chashaku, crafted in dark bamboo, was fashioned by Goto Zuigan Roshi, 503rd abbot of Daitokuji ZenTemple in Kyoto, Japan, and first Zen master to Hounsai Daisosho, the 15th generation Urasenke Grand Master. The work exhibits a strong and...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tea caddy for thick tea with Zeze glaze
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Tea caddies [lcsh]
- This chaire is fashioned in the popular high-shouldered (katatsuki) form with glaze work typical of the Zeze kilns. The shifuku (cover) that accompanies it is fashioned from a satin (donsu) fabric known as Fujitane (a family name), which bears a...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- 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 brocade cover
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; Tea caddies [lcsh]
- This chaire in the daikai shape is paired with a cover (shifuku) made of a beautiful donsu fabric featuring motifs of plum, cherry, and tortoise shell. Shifuku for this style of chaire are tied with a special knot designed to fall open with one...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Tea box
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]
- This unlacquered paulownia box is designed to hold both a ceramic caddy for thick tea (chaire) and lacquered caddy for thick tea (natsume) for the satsubako tea procedure (temae), one of a set of four orally transmitted temae. When a guest...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Suit of armor for Boy's Day set.
- Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Tango no sekku [aacr2]
- Set includes display box (JC8:05), helmet (JC8:06), body suit (JC8:07), face apron (JC8:08), back leg armor (JC8:09), and stand (JC8:19). Boys' Day Festival (Tango-no-Sekku) is observed annually on May 5th to celebrate the healthy growth and...
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- Square dish
- Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]
- This square ceramic dish is perfectly suited for a serving dish during the kaiseki meal that accompanies a formal tea gathering (chaji). Fashioned in the Oribe style, with its distinctive green glaze and bold designs, it depicts a single flower in...
- Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
- Silver engraved baseball charm in original box.
- Concentration camps -- Colorado [lcsh]; Granada Relocation Center [lcna]; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 [lcsh]; Baseball -- Awards [lcsh];
- Silver, engraved baseball charm with "M" won by George Nakano, 1943, in Granada Relocation Center. Possibly won at Merced Detention Center in 1942 and presented at Granada.
- Japanese American Archival Collection ImageBase
- Shogi game pieces and box.
- Japanese -- Social life and customs [lcsh]; Shogi [lcsh];
- Wooden box contains forty-one shogi pieces. Shogi is a Japanese board game played by two players. The object of the game is to capture the opponent's King. Shogi is played on a nine-by-nine board and each player has twenty pieces. Shogi is much...
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