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Japanese Children and Dolls' Tea-Parties

Japanese Children and Dolls' Tea-Parties - Leaflet
Accession #: 812.27
Title: Japanese Children and Dolls' Tea-Parties
Object Type: Leaflet
Participants:
Physical Description: Small accordion folded pamphlet titled "Japanese Children and Dolls' Tea-Parties." On the outside, a pink landscape and blue sky with mountain and temple. On the inside, text in the center with a colorful image plate to either side of the text showing children at play. The text explains that Japanese children like to play at tea socials with dolls and tea sets and that they learn that there are two kinds of tea party, ceremonial and ordinary, during this play.
Description: According to Michiko Takaoka, former director of the Japanese Cultural Center Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, this pamphlet would be called "Chakai no Shiori" in Japanese. 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)
Geographical Reference: Tokushima (International->Asia->Japan)
Dimensions:
length 4"
width 2 3/8"
Materials/Techniques:
paper (fiber product) ( -> -> ) (Material)
Marks/Inscription:
(front)JAPANESE CHILDREN AND DOLL'S TEA PARTIES (back) Printed by the Toppan Printing Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
Related Exhibits:
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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