- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Tenugui cloth depicting sailors wielding weapons while a battleship blows up in the distance.
- Long description
- Tenugui cloth depicting sailors wielding weapons while a battleship blows up in the distance. The battleship is flying the Russian Navy flag and is engulfed in smoke. Japanese inscription at top of cloth. Russo-Japanese war 1904-05 propaganda.
- Geographical reference
- 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 330 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2019.31.27 Other numbers: 60
- 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)
2019.31.27
Tenugui cloth depicting sailors wielding weapons while a battleship blows up in the distance.
2019.31.27
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