Tenugui cloth depicting an eagle, representing Russia, being chased through the skies by two dragonflies, representing Japan.

Collection type: Object
Description: Tenugui cloth depicting an eagle, representing Russia, being chased through the skies by two dragonflies, representing Japan.
Long description: Tenugui cloth depicting an eagle, representing Russia, being chased through the skies by two dragonflies, representing Japan. The eagle is carrying the Russian flag and the dragonflies are carrying the Japanese Imperial Flag (Rising Sun flag). Russo-Japanese war 1904-5 propaganda.
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 897 mm, Width 335 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2019.31.5 Other numbers: 17
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)

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