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The Haga Collection 1965 and 1969 |
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Haga Hideo (b. 1921), the renowned Japanese folk photographer and friend of Josef Kreiner, collected in Japanese villages from a list of missing items, and so augmented the collection of agrarian implements established by Kreiner.
A kettle hook with yokogi in the form a fish, an iron pot for cooking soups with a wooden lid, and a woven strainer-ladle for noodles from the fishing village of Mera on the west coast of the Izu peninsula are shown in the exhibition as examples of his collecting practice. Haga also assembled a large group of amulets and other lucky charms from various regions of Japan.
For his efforts – 764 additions between 1965 and 1969 – he was awarded the silver service medal of the city of Vienna. |
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The kettle hook © Museum of Ethnology, Vienna |
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Often called “folk toys”, they are like the good-luck charms that are so popular throughout Japan. Like the actual amulets (omamori and fuda), these small figures of humans or animals (engimono) are sold at various temples and shrines, or may be acquired in souvenir shops. Popular as decorations imbued with talismanic properties they may be displayed anywhere.
On show here is a small selection (from left to right and from back to front): a Kokeshi doll (Miyagi Prefecture), a daruma doll (Gumma Prefecture), a „hiding horse“ shinobi koma made of rice straw (Iwate Prefecture), a „baby in a basket“ Izume ko (Yamagata Prefecture), an “evil dispelling tiger from Kaga” kaga mayoke tora (Ishikawa Prefecture), a „red cow“ aka beko (Fukushima Prefecture), and a „pheasant coach“ kiji kuruma (Kumamoto Prefecture). |
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"Folk toys" © Museum of Ethnology, Vienna |
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