Tenugui cloth depicting Japanese civilians and soldiers.

Collection type: Object
Description: Tenugui cloth depicting Japanese civilians and soldiers.
Long description: Tenugui cloth depicting Japanese civilians carrying lanterns in procession led by three Japanese soldiers playing marching band instruments and another person carrying a banner with a Japanese inscription.
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Person: PRM source Deborah Sanders; PRM source Peter Sanders
Date / Period: Date made: 1904 - 1905, uncertain
Date collected: September 2018
Acquisition information: Donated: 18/09/2019
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Printed, Process Woven
Dimensions: Length 926 mm, Width 330 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2019.31.2 Other numbers: 10
Research and responses: Note from donors: These are Japanese Tenugui, which were used as wash cloths but are also used as scarves or head-bands. They were printed in Japan, in strips with many layers. The method of creation and a brief history is given in Chapter 7 of 'Cotton & Indigo from Japan by Teresa Duryea Wong, published in 2017 by Schiffer Publishing Ltd (see copy in the RDF)

Search terms: Textile, Towel

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