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Tea Set - Chadogu

Tea Set - Chadogu - Service, Tea
Accession #: 812.30
Title: Tea Set - Chadogu
Object Type: Service, Tea
Participants:
Physical Description: Miniature daily tea set consisting of teapot with lid, pouring vessel and five cups. They are white with blue flower and leaf design.
Description: According to Michiko Takaoka, former director of the Japanese Cultural Center Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, these items are part of the daily tea set "Chadogu" in Japanese. The set consists of a porcelain/spout/handle one-handed tea pot (812.30a-b, used to make leaf tea) called a "kyusu", a container with a spout for hot water (812.30c, used if the water is too hot, placed in this container to reach precisely the right temperature) called a "yusamashi", and five porcelain tea cups (812.30d-h, used only for leaf tea, smaller cups than for a tea ceremony) called "Chawan". 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)
812.30A (Yoshitoku Corporation, Accessory, Doll, Teapot - Kyusu, 1927)
812.30C (Yoshitoku Corporation, Accessory, Doll, Pouring Vessel - Yusamash, 1927)
812.30D (Yoshitoku Corporation, Accessory, Doll, Tea Cup, 1927)
Geographical Reference: Tokushima (International->Asia->Japan)
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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