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box

human history
  • Other Name

    tsutsumu

  • Description

    rectangular box, wrapped in furoshiki cloth (blue). The furoshiki, the ubiquitous square of cloth that is used in Japan to wrap practically anything and everything to make it portable, appears here as the wrapper for the boxes of dried bonito from a shop in Tokyo. there is of course, no limit to design and colour among furoshiki, and they also vary in size, although the ones most commonly used are about three feet square.

    the furoshiki seen here are emblazoned with a character that has the doubly felicitous meaning of "congratulations" and "long life"

  • Place
    Japan
  • Accession Number
    1984.227
  • Accession Date
    01 Aug 1984
  • Other Id

    M2240 (miscellaneous)

    207 (Catalogue no)

  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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