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08 May 2009

The Kubō Collection 1987−1989

Made in Japan

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The Kubō Collection 1987−1989

 

Kubō Akiko (b. 1953) completed her dissertation at the Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Vienna, and worked thereafter from 1986 to 1989 as an intern at the Museum of Ethnology.   Nearly half of her collection assembled during this time (altogether 519 inventory numbers) consists of amulets and other religious articles, thus supplementing the Haga collection. Of particular value are the objects from her family that she donated to the museum. Notable are the Shinto house altar with a side altar and associated objects from her grandmother, from the beginning of the 20th century.   She additionally acquired a wide palette of plastic food. Such plastic models of the food available, displayed in the windows of Japanese restaurants, are supposed to arouse customers’ appetites.

 

 

Shinto house altar © Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

Wide palette of plastic food © Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

 

 

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