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12 May 2009

The Collections of Curators

Made in Japan

Contents - The Early Collections before the Opening of Japan - The Austro-Hungarian East Asia Expedition 1868-1871 - The Vienna World Exhibition 1873 - The Drasche-Wartinberg Collection 1877 - The Troll Collection 1886 - The Siebold Collection 1889     - Este Collection 1893 - The Kreiner Collection 1964, 1966 and 1969 - The Haga Collection 1965 and 1969 - The Kubō Collection 1987−1989 - The Collections of Curators - HARU – SPRING

 

 

The Collections of Curators

 

In times of tight budgets, the question arises as to how the collections can be expanded in the future. Antiquarian or artistically sophisticated objects are seldom affordable with the financial resources available. From an ethnographic perspective, it thus seems sensible to acquire objects that document aspects of contemporary everyday life in Japan.     In 2006, several such ensembles were acquired on a collecting trip in Japan. These include kitchen utensils currently used in Japan, among other objects. The purchase of modern plastic bathing paraphernalia represents the first attempt to compensate for the previous lack of objects from the bathing culture so important in Japan.   Everyday street life in Japan is today unimaginable without children and young people in their Kindergarten or school uniforms. For this reason, several complete sets of such uniforms were acquired.

 

 

 

Bathing utensils © Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

 

 

 

Kindergarten uniforms © Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

 

 

 

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