Daifukucho ("lucky notebook"); album of striped textile scraps

Object Details

• Designer

  Shibuya (given name unknown)

• Description

  A handmade notebook dated Meiji 38 (1905) created by someone with the surname of Shibuya, used to keep an album of scraps of striped cotton fabric--possibly the production record of a small-scale workshop. The samples include some uses of chemical dyes introduced to Japan in the late nineteenth century. The back of the notebook contains pages of practice for writing conventional phrases used in correspondance.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the Jeffrey Krauss Collection of Japanese Textiles

• Type

  Album

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• Date

  1900s

• Name

  Shibuya

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Albums