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Japan

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 36.204824;138.252924,Created For = Japan

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Black Japanese Bull, 4 as 5 Years, 1090 lbs, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2848
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Black Japanese bull, 4 as 5 years old and weighing 1090 lbs standing in a lane with a man holding its rope lead in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Catalogue presenting 198 different mounted fabric silk samples, Kyoto, Japan

 Fonds — Folder SC-Acc-2016-0118, Box: data_value_missing_cbcd34721d87faa21876ab0aff8dd03e, Box: data_value_missing_f34949f74c48e874d293899098ed80c3
Identifier: Coll-1762
Scope and Contents

Album/Catalogue with board covers in purple soft fabric with Japanese script which may once have been gilded. The album contains 198 mounted and different silk samples in various colours or shades.

Dates: 1908

Collection of Admiral Henry Craven St John

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-1872
Scope and Contents This collection is composed of effects that belonged to Henry Craven St John, a young Lieutenant (later Commander, then Admiral) who brilliantly fought against pirates in the Chinese Seas in the 1860s. It includes: a presentation scroll to Commander Henry Craven St John, conveying thanks for his fighting piracy at Laksui (1866); a covering letter from the Admiralty (1866); a mahogany and brass-fitted medicine box (1860s); and an album of c. 300 watercolours executed by Henry Craven St John,...
Dates: 1850s-1870s

Diaries of Sheena Tennant Kendall and Herbert Moorhouse Kendall written while in Japan and describing the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-768
Identifier: Coll-1746
Content Description 7 x diary volumes, bound by Asprey in dark green morocco, titles to spines and front boards gilt. Each volume with one page per day and additional blank pages at the rear.The 7 x diary volumes, taken as a whole, present a vivid, evocative and informative picture of the life of the British expatriate merchant community in Japan in the period immediately following the First World War, brutally interrupted by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1 September 1923. The 1923 diary entries of...
Dates: 1919-1924

Ewes - All Kinds from Nasu, Japan, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1781
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a flock of ewes of various breeds grazing in a field in Nasu, Japan in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Geisha Girls, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3056
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of geishas sitting and standing in a courtyard in the early 20th century, Japan.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Ikebana manuscripts compiled by Yamanaka Chuzaemon entitled 'Shinsen Heika Zui' (New Selection of Illustrated Flower Arrangement)

 Fonds — Box CLX-A-368
Identifier: Coll-1862
Scope and Contents

Two volumes comprising 52 leaves with 100 water-colour illustrations (three double-pages) with captions in Japanese. One page of Japanese text at the end of volume two. The illustrations are finely drawn and painted in delicate colours, all well preserved, and depict 100 flower arrangements of Ikenobo rikka style. Two different kinds are mentioned; Rokkakudo and Takada Anryubo. These volumes are read from right to left.

Dates: Genroku II (1698)

Japanese illustrated manuscript entitled Buko Setsugekka ('Beautiful Military Exploits') by Matsuyama, 1721 (Kyoho 6)

 Item — Box CLX-A-1126
Identifier: Coll-1848/19-0104
Scope and Contents This is a guide on how a samurai gets dressed with 21 hand drawn and coloured illustrations on fine paper, dating from 1721, reading right to left. Each drawing is accompanied by poems and descriptions in Japanese calligraphy. The book commences with a man putting on underwear ('fundoshi'), followed by step-by-step pictures of him adding more and more items of clothing and armour, ending with a complete suit of samurai chain kusari gosok armour. This sequence...
Dates: 1721 (Kyoho 6)

Japanese manuscript entitled "Kirishitan Oshirabe Isshi" ("On the Innocence of Non-Christians"), Bunsei 11 [1828]

 Item — Box CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0090
Scope and Contents A manuscript document written in 1828 declaring the religious Innocence of a Japanese family comprised of eleven people (six women and five men). Christianity was banned in Japan in 1612 by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the ban was only lifted in 1873 under the government of Emperor Meiji, who had gained power following the opening of Japan to trade by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854. Until the lift of the ban, Japanese citizens were required to register annually at their local temple as...
Dates: Bunsei 11 [1828]

Jim, the Prince's Japanese Cook, E.P. Ranch, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3208
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man named, Jim, who was the Prince [Edward]'s Japanese cook standing in front of a house on the E. P. Ranch in [Alberta, Canada] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s