Collections

Loose Leaf Tea Container - Chatsubo

Accession #:	812.36
Title:	Loose Leaf Tea Container - Chatsubo
Object Type:	Canister
Participants:	Yoshitoku Corporation
Physical Description:	Container for loose leaf tea. Small cylindrical metal canister with removable lid. Exterior is black lacquer with decorative painted scene of woman, shrubbery, and Mount Fujiyama. Interior and beneath lid is natural silver color.
Description:	Tea container from Green tea set intended for daily use. (information provided by Japanese Cultural Center - Patrice Pendell & Michiko Takaoka, April 2003). This metal tea container with a lid, "chatsubo", is a metal pot to store large amounts of tea, 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)
Geographical Reference:	Tokushima (International->Asia->Japan)
Dimensions:	height 2 1/4" Diameter 1 1/2"
Materials/Techniques:	lacquer (coating) ( -> ->coating (material)) (Material) paint ( -> ->coating (material)) (Material) metal ( -> -> ) (Material)
Related Exhibits:	Hometowns: Heart of the Inland Northwest Spokane Timeline: Spokane's Japanese-American Community The Doll that Crossed the Sea and the Period of War
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.

To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see:
https://www.northwestmuseum.org/collections