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Tea Preparation Bowl - Chawan

Accession #:	812.28
Title:	Tea Preparation Bowl - Chawan
Object Type:	Bowl
Participants:	Yoshitoku Corporation
Physical Description:	Small round ceramic bowl, highly polished green surface inside and outside. For mixing tea. Base is natural, unglazed clay with a raised rim base.
Description:	Bowl, called a "Chawan" (information provided by Japanese Cultural Center - Patrice Pendell & Michiko Takaoka, April 2003). This ceramic tea bowl, "Chawan", is a very special bowl used to prepare and serve 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:	Diameter 1 3/8" height 1"
Materials/Techniques:	glaze ( -> ->coating (material)) (Material) ceramic (material) ( -> -> ->clay) (Material)
Related Exhibits:	Hometowns: Heart of the Inland Northwest SOLARIUM.APRIL.2003 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.

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