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Katagami, Paper Fans

This is a Katagami. It is dated late 19th–early 20th century and we acquired it in 1946. Its medium is mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire). It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.


Japanese woodblock prints were a part of the stock of Bing’s gallery in Paris. Although nine of these prints from the Museum collection are documents as having come from Bing, they are of the type that found such a receptive audience among collectors and connoisseurs in the latter decades of the nineteenth century.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Norvin Hewitt Green.

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  • glazed and hand-painted earthenware.
  • Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
  • 1990-41-1
  • Vase (USA)
  • glazed and hand-painted stoneware.
  • Gift of Marcia and William Goodman.
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Katagami, Paper Fans; Japan; mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire); Museum purchase through gift of Norvin Hewitt Green; 1946-104-3

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