This fukusa is decorated with soft orange, white, and yellow stripes on a pink ground. Just as the fan (sensu) has come to represent the guest, the fukusa serves to signify the host's role in a tea gathering. The informality of decorated fukusa...
Guests at a tea gathering are expected to bring a number of small items with them: folded white paper (kaishi); a yoji; fukusa, kobukusa; kochakin in a small case; and a folding fan (sensu). These items, with the exception of the sensu, are kept...
Japanese tea ceremony [lcsh]; Tea making paraphernalia [lcsh]; tea caddies [lcsh]
The 14th generation Urasenke master Tantansai (1893-1964) designed this unlacquered nakatsugi of mulberry wood to be used by students studying the wakin temae. The wakin temae, created by 11th generation Urasanke master Gengensai (1810-1877),...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American [lcsh]; United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd [lcna]; United States -- Armed Forces -- Japanese Americans [lcsh]; World War, 1939-1945 -- Medals [lcsh];
L to R: American Campaign Medal (blue striped); Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal (yellow striped); Army Good Conduct Medal (red striped). Worn on World War II U.S. military uniform, most likely by a Japanese American member of the 442nd Regimental...
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American [lcsh]; United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd [lcna]; United States -- Armed Forces -- Japanese Americans [lcsh]; World War, 1939-1945 -- Medals [lcsh];
L to R: European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (brown, red and green striped), Occupation Service Medal (black, red, and white striped); Victory Medal(red and rainbow striped). Worn on World War II U.S. military uniform, most likely by a...
