Women, Japanese

Date: 1890-1906

By: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: Objects-0636

Description: Maker(s) not identified. Statue of a standing woman, a crown on her head, wearing a long flowing patterned garment.The figure represents a goddess and has a bindi on her forehead. Likely a Japanese-manufactured figurine of the Chinese seafarer's goddess Ma Zu Po or Mazu. The figure may be a Buddhist or Daoist one. It may be the Chinese seafarer's goddess Ma Zu Po, or Mazu, the Daoist Queen of Heaven and Holy Mother. Seafarers prayed or sacrificed to this goddess for fine weather and safe conduct. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 object(s). Physical Description: Porcelain, 300 x 50 x 50 mm (circular) Processing information: Description edited as part of Objects survey, 2024. Previous reference: Curios-029-049. Previous title: Maker unknown :[Japanese or Chinese figure. ca 1900].

Date: 1945-1948

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-125

Description: Multiple copies of official and unofficial photographs; nearly all contain captions. RNZAF pilots arriving at a jetty with their kit (the name `Fleming' is stamped on one of the bags); Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier proposes a toast at the wedding of Flying Officer Erling Ziesler & Florance Hoadley which took place a Iwakuni; Lt Gen V H Sturdee chatting with Miss Burys Burrell on the wharf at Kure (includes Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier, Brigadier A R Garrett & Col G Jenkins); group of housegirls employed at a 2NZEF Officers' Mess; drum roll at Empire Day celebrations (J A Harvey, J W Sewell & I R M Brewer.) Series of photos taking during the military funeral for Sgt E M N McLaughlin, RNZA, who was buried at Yokohama. Photograph taken during the BCOF Rifle Shooting Competition Championship meeting held at Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku where BCOF had a training school. Group photo of Sgt J B Nichols (Australia), Staff Sgt J W Slate (USA), Sgt L E Rosie (NZ), Cpl W K Green (USA), Pte A W Cox (Australia) & Staff Sgt J L Arth (USA). Convalescent Kiwis from 6th NZ General Hospital with their nurses on a days outing to Japanese Inland Sea; Chofu street scene; guard of NZ Divisional Cavalry,and band of 2NZEF (Japan) playing prior to the changing of the guard; Lt Col J A Worsnop inspecting the parade at HQ 2NZEF on the occasion of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, accompanied by Lt L Catfield & Major E J Horwood; members of 3rd NZ Regiment stationed at HQ, Chofu for guard duties photographed at the formal dinner to celebrate the wedding (Ptes M D Barry, I Cleverely; E Armstrong, J Lewis & N Logan); guests at the Kokkasa Hotel on the shores of Lake Biwa chatting in the garden with kimono-clad Japanese women; men on board the `Dunera' on return to NZ; fire damage at Chofu; portion of the audience during a performance by NZ Concert Party for 2 NZ Divisional Cavalry at YMCA Hall, Mizuba; Miss Margaret Richmond singing at the concert accompanied on the piano by Henry Rudolph. Gift shop at Chofu run by Australian Canteen Services (Pte G M Roberts examining a string of pearls); members of HQ Pay Office counting the new currency to be used by Occupation Forces (Sgt T J Duffy, Pte K Simpson, Sgt V G Brooker & Sgt J A Mitchell); polling booth for Japanese House of Representatives elections (Sgt J L Smith supervising); members of 2NZEF (Japan) band playing outside Brigade Headquarters, Chofu watched by Japanese children; soldiers on a route march; Lt-General H C H Robertson being greeted by Rear Admiral Woodhouse of cruiser HMS Newfoundland during visit of British Pacific Fleet to Kure. Members of NZ Guard Battalion sightseeing in Tokyo - Photo taken on roof of the new BCOF `OR's' Club (Pte M D R Munroe, Pte F W Moore, Pte L A Whitlow & Trooper K E March); Trooper K E March taking a photo from the roof of the Union Jack Club (the new BCOF club) with the Nippon Geikjo (theatre) in the background. New Zealanders voting on Eta Jima (Capt W Dillon, Lt W A Simpson, Capt V Henderson, Capt A C Widdell, Lt-Col A O Gillespie, F/Lt Atkinson); Brigadier Clifton recording a vote. Series of photos taken during the visit of Hon F Jones - Inspecting guard of honour on arrival at Iwakuni accompanied by Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier; greeted by Air Vice Marshal F M Bladin; at Beppu; meeting Lt-Colonel W H Leeming at Mahratta Ball, Tokyo. View of BCOF sub-base, the Nagai Building, known as Empire House, and next to this is the Kishimoto Building (General MacArthur's Headquarters); Nissan Ohta (Japanese car). Quantity: 110 b&w original photographic print(s). 18 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1917]

From: Jull, Henry Augustus, fl 1917 :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1330

Description: Photograph album compiled by Henry Jull, comprising images of Japanese people, houses and villages, collected on Jull's travels around Japan in 1917. Includes photographs of the pagoda Gojunoto and Lake Chuzenji at Nikko. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Cloth covered album 27.3 x 37.8 cm

Date: 1976

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: C-134-064

Description: Shows a design for the costume of Susuki for Acts I and II. On the designer's own inventory as item number 17/131. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Gouache, on board 560 x 360 mm.

Date: 1902

From: Paubet, Lilian, fl 1902 :[Watercolour album of views in New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. 1902].

Reference: E-458-014

Description: Shows two Japanese women in traditional dress including platform shoes. One, holding the hand of a child, carries her parasol over her hea, and the other has hers furled. Two hens walk around in the right foreground. Extended Title - From her Watercolour album of views ... 1902. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Verso - top centre - [Subtitle] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page 115 x 255 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, Cold Spring NY, in 2004.

Date: 1947

Reference: PA1-o-977

Description: The album contains three groups of photographs. The first group are the personal snaps taken by the creator of this collection who was a member of the British section of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. The second group are commercial photographs of Kure, and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bomb. There are also photographs of Mt Fujiama and Miss Japan 1947. The third group of images is made up of postcards of English towns, cities and cathedrals Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1945-1948

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-135

Description: Multiple copies of assorted official and unofficial photographs; most contain captions. Series of photographs of units of the British Pacific Fleet's visit to Japan (Vice-Admiral Sir Dennis W Boyd); Allied Missions visit to Kure; first WAAFs to visit Japan, photographed with Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier and Wing Commander R A C Barkley; series of photographs of Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, including instruction of students of the Indian wing (resettlement programme); King's Birthday Parade in Tokyo (2nd Bn, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles; 30th Field Battery, Royal Artillery; 268 Indian Brigade); parade in honour of Princess Elizabeth's wedding in Tokyo; series of photographs of Royal Welch Fusiliers, including Cadet Ensigns of the F.A.N.Y. Canteen staff stationed at Tokushima; visit of the Chaplains General of the AMF; visit of Mr & Mrs MacMahon Ball; Mrs H C H Robertson visiting 130 Australian General Hospital; visit of Lord and Lady Tedder; visit of French frigate `Decouverte' to Kure (Commander Huert with Capt W W P Shirley-Rollison). Indian Army Signals Detachment (Indian Air Formation Signals) at Iwakuni; visit of five British MPs; Shikoku earthquake relief and rescue work; aftermath of Kure bomb damage (including dock area); Pilot H Hurn's hobby farm on waste land; BCAIR police checking for illegal trafficking on river boats; contraband cargo captured from Chinese junk at Yanai by Australian Air Force personnel; sumo wrestlers; Japanese home in ruins of Kure shrine; Kure street scene; view of Hiroshima showing plane dropping safety leaflets; view of garden party at British Embassy, Tokyo. Series of photographs taken during `Safety Week' campaign Gloucester House, last of 16 holiday hostels opened for BCOF personnel, near Kobe; Rear-Admiral A M Bledsoe, Commander of US Naval Support Group, with Air Vice Marshal J P Macauley, Chief of Staff, HQ BCOF; conference of Japanese YWCA (Miss Leila Bridgman, Miss Jean Begg and Mrs Frederic Newhouse, National President of YWCA of Great Britain); crowd scene during visit of Emperor Hirohito to Hiroshima; C-in-C BCOF Conference at Eta Jima (named on back). Series of photographs of the British and Indian Division of BCOF race meeting at Okayama; series of photographs of dedication of the font at St George's Garrison Church at Eta Jima Photographs taken of facilities, life and Japanese staff at Eta Jima; leaflet drop from a Dakota as part of a reafforestation scheme; Dakota and Auster aircraft at Iwakuni; emergency airstrip at Okayama (from the air); Sgt J I Rattray & Cpl N H Bashford with a Japanese-American translating captured Japanese Air Force documents; group at picnic lunch (Air Vice Marshal Bouchier, Gen Robertson, Col E P Dickson & Major General Clovis Byers, Chief of Staff 8th US Army); Japanese language class; Japanese school children at outdoor class on an island in the Inland sea. Quantity: 233 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1998 - 1999

By: National Opera of Wellington (N.Z.); Markham, Philip, 1941-

Reference: Eph-F-OPERA-NOW-1999-01

Description: Black t-shirt displays the graphic designed by artist and costume designer Philip Markham, showing a woman in traditional Japanese costume, with the head and shoulders of a blond boy wrapped inside her kimono. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on t-shirt. Physical Description: Colour print, 255 x 220 mm, on black short-sleeved cotton shirt 660 x 500 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1760 - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Transfers made from there.

Date: 1978 - 1982

By: Waite, Keith, 1927-2014

Reference: A-262-048

Description: Shows six Japanese women at a bus stop in Tokyo Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Waite Tokyo; Recto - beneath image - Women at a bus stop; Verso - Women at a bus stop Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash 151 x 248 mm Provenance: Keith Waite

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2983

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1960s showing portraits of Daniel Johnston Riddiford. Also includes a transparency possibly taken by Beavis on an unknown date showing three young children smoking. Also includes a transparency taken by Beavis on an unknown date showing a view of Bolton Street Cemetery, Wellington. Also includes a transparency taken by Beavis on an unknown date showing Arthur Fiedler with an orchestra behind him. Also includes transparencies possibly taken by Beavis on an unknown date showing Japanese women, some of whom are pictured in kimono. Transparencies showing Japanese women are continued at PA12-2984. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "E. Ormrod & Arthur Fiedler" and "Japanese potters". Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies. 1 b&w original transparency/ies.

Date: [ca 1950s-1970s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2984

Description: Transparencies possibly taken by Beavis on an unknown date showing Japanese women, some of whom are pictured in kimono. The backdrops show scenic views of Mount Fuji, temples, and other scenes. Among this group are other tourist scenes including of mountain dogs and an Inuit woman and children. Also includes a transparency showing a portrait of Marilyn Monroe, taken circa 1950s. Also includes transparencies showing a man on a beach lounger holding an umbrella, which can be seen blowing away in some images. These appear to have been taken by Beavis on a Wellington beach circa 1970s. Transparencies showing Peter Read at the beach are continued at PA12-2985. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Japanese potters", "Marilyn Monrow cov. Golden Girl" and "Peter Read | Beach". Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies.

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-035

Description: Two young Japanese women, holding parasols against rain. Both are dressed in kimonos. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on paper, 295 x 221 mm

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-044

Description: A preliminary design for the Australian School magazine, showing two Japanese women in traditional dress, one painting or drawing. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, 152 x 100 mm

Date: 1963

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-047

Description: A preliminary design for the Australian School magazine, showing two Japanese women in traditional dress, in the rain. Both carry parasols For an earlier pencil version on tracing paper see B-131-13-102. For the final version as published see B-131-13-108 Other Titles - Rain shower Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and Chinese white on paper, 120 x 88 mm

Date: 1963

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-048

Description: A preliminary design for the Australian School magazine, showing two Japanese women in traditional dress, in an interior. One holds a lantern, the other a fan. A brazier is on the floor. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, 148 x 108 mm

Date: 1963

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-102

Description: A preliminary design for the Australian School magazine, showing two Japanese women in traditional dress, in the rain. Both carry parasols For the ink version of this drawing, see B-131-13-047. Drawn for the New South Wales School Magazine. For the final version as published see B-131-13-108 Other Titles - Rain shower Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on tracing paper, 305 x 208 mm

Date: 1963

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-108

Description: The torn-off cover of the School Magazine including an illustration by Eileen Mayo, showing two Japanese women in traditional dress, in the rain. Both carry parasols For an earlier pencil version on tracing paper see B-131-13-102. For a printed version, lacking full surrounding text, see B-131-13-102 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 244 x 180 mm

Date: 1963

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-108-a

Description: The torn-off cover of the School Magazine including an illustration by Eileen Mayo, showing two Japanese women in traditional dress, in the rain. Both carry parasols For an earlier pencil version on tracing paper see B-131-13-102. For a printed version, lacking full surrounding text, see B-131-13-102 Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset printing on paper, 244 x 180 mm

Date: 1847 - 1991

By: Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1797-1861; National Diet Library (Japan)

Reference: B-090-007

Description: "Here Kuniyoshi vividly presents the typical scene on the New Year Day of the Edo period, boldly drawing in the center a big kite with a picture of Bodhidarma and some children playing with it. Around the kite there stand out three pairs of mother and child, one in the middle on their way to take the first bath in the year, another on the right to play battledore-and-shuttlecock and still another on the left watching kites flying. Seen fa[r]ther away, among others, are a merchant drawing a cart loaded with the first cargo and the symbolic Mt Fuji looming beyond the cloud. The people of the Edo period in the mid-19th century particularly loved colorful ukiyo-e prints and pictures of valiant and vigorous warriors. This picture beautifully represents the emotional feelings of the people in those days". Scope and contents notes taken from accompanying sheet, which is housed with the triptych and its envelope. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s) triptych in folder, with envelope.. Physical Description: Photolithographs (three) each 374 x 251 mm, mounted as a triptych in folder, 473 x 900 mm.

Date: ca 1917-ca 1981

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-7817

Description: Comprises photographs of Gear homestead, Porirua; site of Gear Point School, and industrial land development in the vicinity; group portrait of engineering staff, 1916-1917; board of directors, 1977; kosher killings with ritual slaughtermen (shocatim) flown out from Israel; visit of Japanese girl students to Gear Meat Company; group portrait of Nelson Freezing Co Ltd staff, 24 July 1969; and loading meat at Wellington wharves. Quantity: 29 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s). Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts & Archives - Reference 81-295 (Further records of the Gear Meat Company Ltd).