- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- This was a return gift for the favour of a customer, wrapping a simple hand towel, a very common cheap return gift in Japan
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1996
- Date collected
- By 1996
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 02/1996
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Ink, Process Printed
- Dimensions
- Width 103 mm, Length 190 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1996.17.348 Other numbers: 2 written in ball-point pen on the back
- Research and responses
For more information on noshi (formal gift wrappings) and mizuhiki, see donor's typewritten catalogue and handwritten notes. [CW 29 10 97]
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