Japan
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Locator = 36.204824;138.252924,Created For = Japan
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
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)
Photograph album of Sheena Tennant Kendall
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-2054
Content Description
This is a photograph album of Sheena Lillian Grant Tennant Kendall (1883-1974), composer and daughter of wealthy Scottish industrialist James Tennant. Kendall is well identified in the album, which documents a period of residence in Japan (1919-24), as well as travels in Egypt, Burma, Ceylon, Malaysia and Shanghai, and their life at Scottish and English country estates. It also includes 19 photos of Hakone, Japan in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923; images of horse racing...
Dates:
1919-1925