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Chest of Drawers - Tansu

Chest of Drawers - Tansu - Furniture, Doll
Accession #: 812.10
Title: Chest of Drawers - Tansu
Object Type: Furniture, Doll
Participants:
Physical Description: Miniature chest of drawers, "Tansu". Black lacquered rectangular box of wood with two wide shallow drawers, two small drawers, and one deep drawer. Covered with black paper decorated in intricate pattern of gold leaf. Edges lacquered. Silver handles on drawers.
Description: The name for a lacquer chest of drawers in Japanese (Romaji) is "Tansu" according to Michiko Takaoka, former director of the Japanese Cultural Center Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute. The Miss Tokushima doll was used as part of an international doll exchange to promote goodwill between Japan and the U. S. This doll is 1 of 58 doll ambassadors sent by 2,610,000 Japanese school girls in those Primary Schools and Kindergartens which had received one of the 12,739 Doll Messengers of Friendship sent to Japan in the spring of 1927 by thousands of American children and young people. The Friendship Doll exchange was coordinated by the Committee on World Friendship Among Children, which was instituted by The Commission on International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. This particular doll represents the Tokushima prefecture on the island of Shikoku.
Category: History
Related Objects:
812.1 (Koryusai Takizawa, Doll, Japanese Friendship Doll, Miss Tokushima, 1927)
812.9 (Yoshitoku Corporation, Accessory, Doll, Mirror and Case - Kyodai, 1927)
Geographical Reference: Tokushima (International->Asia->Japan)
Dimensions:
length 5 1/4"
width 4 3/8"
height 5"
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Credit Line: Gift of the Goodwill Doll Exchange, 1927. In honor of their work to further the exchange of friendship and knowledge between the people of Japan and the people of the Inland Northwest and for their work in the history of Friendship Dolls, the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture dedicates "Miss Tokushima" to Michiko and Hiroshi Takaoka. Board of Trustees, September 5, 2006.

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