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Pouring Vessel - Yusamash

Pouring Vessel - Yusamash - Accessory, Doll
Accession #: 812.30C
Title: Pouring Vessel - Yusamash
Object Type: Accessory, Doll
Participants:
Physical Description: Pouring vessel that is a part of miniature daily tea set. It is oval shaped with an open pouring spout. Set also has a teapot and five cups. They are white with blue flower and leaf design.
Description: Pouring vessel is used to adjust very hot water to perfect temperature to make tea, called a Yusamash" for Green tea set intended for daily use. (information provided by Japanese Cultural Center - Patrice Pendell & Michiko Takaoka, April 2003) 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)
812.30 (Yoshitoku Corporation, Service, Tea, Tea Set - Chadogu, 1927)
Geographical Reference: Tokushima (International->Asia->Japan)
Dimensions:
height 1 1/4"
length 2 1/2"
width 1 5/8"
Materials/Techniques:
ceramic (material) ( -> -> ->clay) (Material)
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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