Art, Japanese

Date: 1973

Reference: E-278-q-127

Description: Wood block print on envelope (First day of issue) depicting a rural scene with a mountain in the background. There is a stone monument/slab in foreground with katakana on it. Underneath the wood block print is 2633-5-25 (25 May 1973?). Enclosed is a brief letter from Eiichi Hirose and three of his Ex-Libris wood block prints (70 x 50 mm) depicting folk art (toys). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood-block print 80 x 45 mm on front of envelope

Date: 1973

Reference: E-278-q-128

Description: Wood block print on envelope (First day of issue) depicting a rural scene with a mountain in the background. There is a stone monument/slab in foreground with katakana on it. Underneath the wood block print is 2633-5-25 (25 May 1973?). Enclosed is a brief letter from Eiichi Hirose re Ex Libris Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood-block print 80 x 45 mm on front of envelope

Date: 1973

Reference: E-278-q-129

Description: Wood block print on envelope (First day of issue) depicting a samurai soldier. Underneath the wood block print is 2633-7-1. Enclosed are nine of Hirose's Ex Libris bookplates depicting Japanese folk art. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Wood-block print 80 x 45 mm on front of envelope

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: 1904 - 1905

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

Reference: C-062-001/015

Description: Scenes of battles between the Japanese and Russians on land and at sea, around the Manchuria Lao-Tung Peninsula 15 plates in 16 folders; no. 6 is in two separate parts Inscriptions: Recto - Japanese inscriptions. No. 11 has inscription in English: The great victory of Japanese army in the battle of Nanshan Quantity: 15 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Woodblock prints, coloured, sizes vary

Date: 1860 - 1961 - 1870

By: Sutch, Helen, 1945-

Reference: E-944-q

Description: Watercolour drawings by an unidentified Japanese artist, executed in the Southern school of painting technique known as Nanga, derived from Chinese painting. Images include birds, some animals, landscapes, and studies of people Accompanied by correspondence between Sir David Smith and Professor Mikio Hiramatsu of Keio University, Tokyo during June 1961 (found at MS-Group-1991). Professor Hiramatsu presented the book of watercolours to Sir David as a thank-you gift. At a request from Sir David, the professor provided scant information about the book, including the artistic style of the paintings and an estimate of when they were painted. A photocopy of this note is with the sketchbook Nanga or bunjinga paintings almost always depicted traditional Chinese subjects. Artists focused almost exclusively on landscapes and birds and flowers. Poetry or other inscriptions were also an important element of these paintings, and were often in fact added by friends of the artist, not by the painter himself. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on 69 pages of Japanese paper, bound but not covered, 275 x 195 mm Provenance: Donation: Helen Sutch, Wellington, 2012 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-1991 - Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts; other items transferred to Photographic Archive.

Date: 1965

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to artists, art awards, art sales and art exhibitions]

By: Cleverley, Mark, 1933-; Wyatt & Wilson Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-ARTS-1965-01

Description: Catalogue for an exhibition contains an essay about Japanese decorative art, and a list of 101 items: ceramics, lacquer ware, dyework and metal work. The front cover shows a pink and white floral design. Donor information: cover design is by Mark Cleverley Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 238 x 183 mm. Provenance: Donated by Hamish Thompson, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1965

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to artists, art awards, art sales and art exhibitions]

By: Wyatt & Wilson Ltd; Cleverley, Mark, 1933-

Reference: Eph-A-ARTS-1965-02

Description: Catalogue for an exhibition contains a message from the Christchurch Festival chairman James Collins, an essay about Japanese decorative art, and a list of 101 items: ceramics, lacquer ware, dyework and metal work. The front cover shows a pink and white floral design, and includes addition words at the top edge: Festival Exhibition of .... Donor information: cover design is by Mark Cleverley Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 238 x 183 mm. Provenance: Donated by Hamish Thompson, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1990-2009

Reference: Eph-D-FESTIVAL-1990/2009

Description: Includes: 1996: Festival of Japan; a celebration of Japanese arts and culture. 12 August - 1 September 1996 1997: Catapult Productions presents Fringe Festival Performance Cafe; an evening of bite-sized performances. Escape, 9 Edward Street, 14 March [1997] (2 copies) New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs. Dates to celebrate in 1997 1998: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs. Dates to celebrate in 2008 2000: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs. Dates to celebrate in 2000 2001: New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs. Dates to celebrate in 2001 2002: Office of Ethnic Affairs. Dates to commemorate in 2002 2003: Office of Ethnic Affairs. Dates to commemorate in 2003 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, mimeographs, booklets, sizes varying up to 330 mm.

Date: 1959

Reference: PAColl-6637

Description: 7 photographs of a trip to Japan made by Walter Nash while Prime Minister of New Zealand. They show his arrival at Haneda Airport, an embassy reception for him, and a visit he made to Hodogaya Cemetery. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-020373 to 020378 Quantity: 7 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negatives

Date: 1880 - 1920

By: Bairei, Kono, 1844-1893; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: E-896-q

Description: Coloured prints of sketches with Japanese titles, showing birds in settings of flowers and trees. Birds include: sparrows, cockerels, ducks, parrots, grouse, falcons, peacock, egret, finches, jay, buntings, dove, owl, pheasant, cranes and other species. Other notes: the kind of volume published as an examplary model for amateur painters and draughtsmen Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Woodblock prints in album, each page 355 x 245 mm. Processing information: Until 2008 shelved in G Collection at q 761 JAP.

Date: Apr 1949

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-181

Description: Photographs for publication in NZ Free Lance, Apr 1949 Scene at the civic reception held in Dixon Park, Greymouth to honour the visit of HMNZS Kaniere, one of the new frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy; Cromwell racecourse; action photos from Ngaruawahia's annual regatta (includes young Maori boy eating watermelon); Maori deputation visiting Parliament to discuss the question of liquor licence in the King Country (includes portrait of 78 year old Mrs A Huirama); exhibition held in Christchurch of Japanese wood-block colour prints compiled by K R Moshelm, a former director of Army Education and Welfare Service in Japan; Bailey bridge on Lewis Pass Road, near Glen Wye Station; photo of family of Gilbert Edwards, a Dunedin claimant to the fortune of a Welsh stonemason who immigrated to New York and died in 1789 (story in Free Lance, 20 Apr 1949). Makara Radio Station (series of photos including A F Smith, officer in charge of Makara Radio Station); Star Rugby Club, New Plymouth 60th jubilee celebrations and members of the 1919-1939 decades in the grand parade held at Rugby Park; limestone caves recently discovered at Lake Te Anau (Cave of Swirling Waters). Final section of the main highway between Auckland and Te Kuiti under construction (Mayor of Te Kuiti, K W Law watching final load of metal chips being laid); composting of Masterton's refuse; construction of the road at Belmont Gully and Haywards (Hutt Valley); repair of fault in the Auckland-Suva cable by Government steamer Matai; Union Steam Company's vessel Waitemata en route to Vancouver rescuing converted Fairmile launch Mahurangi in Pacific Ocean near Rarotonga. All Black captain Fred Allen, with former All Black Trevor Berghan and Mrs Berghan in fancy dress costume; Chinese crew's arrival in Auckland to take over the Union Steam Ship Company's vessel Kaikorai at Port Chalmers (sold to Hwah Lee Steam Ship Company of Shanghai) Quantity: 58 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: 1815 - 1896

By: Hokusai, Katsushika Nakajima Tamekazu, 1760-1849; Itsu-Un, Kinoshita Shosai, 1799-1866; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: E-274

Description: Most sketches identified by labels written in English, translated from the Japanese. Prints by Hokusai, Shotei and Shosai. One volume is not bound and can be opened out as a frieze, showing life in Japan; other volumes show flowers, birds, leaves, landscapes, cityscapes. Quantity: 10 album(s). Physical Description: Bound volumes of black and white and coloured Japanese woodblock prints 225 x 158 mm to 253 x 186 mm

Date: 1990 - 2009

Reference: Eph-D-TEXTILE-ARTS-1990/2009

Description: Includes: 1992: New Zealand's "Gift to the Globe"; four magnificent embroidered hangings for the stage of the reconstructed Globe Theatre (Shows "Adonis", photography by Julia Brooke-White). Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Buckle street Wellington, 3 December 1992 - 7 February 1993. A Wellington Shakespeare Society project. 1994: "Provided with eyes"; Bryony Dalefield. Dowse Art Museum Laings Road Lower Hutt, 10 December [1994] - 5 March [1995]. British Council - brought to New Zealand and toured by the Dowse Art Museum (2 copies) 1996: Dowse Art Museum. Maningrida; the language of weaving. Dowse Art Museum, Laings Road Lower Hutt Aotearoa / New Zealand. 23 November 1996 - 16 February 1997. An exhibition of contemporary Australian Aboriginal weaving from Maningrida, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Photography of Dillybags by Robert Colvin. [1996] (2 copies) 2007: Otago Museum. "Seasons of indigo; Japanese textile art". Special Exhibitions Gallery, 1 September - 28 November 2007. Made possible with the support of: Japan-Australia-NZ Society, Shizuoka-NZ Society, Otaru-NZ Society, Air New Zealand, Nagano Broadcasting Corporation Quantity: 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes varying about 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: One poster donated by the Hocken Library, Dunedin, in 2012.

Date: 2017

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to artists, art awards, art sales and art exhibitions]

By: New Zealand Japan Foundation

Reference: Eph-B-ARTS-2017-03

Description: Illustrated exhibition booklet with a map of Japan showing the various districts and their craft specialties. Two copies held Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 15 pages, 297 x 210 mm. plus 4-page insert

Date: 1958-1981

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: PAColl-1551-01

Description: Photographs relating to art and crafts, 1958 to 1981 (but mainly 1970s), by an Evening Post photographer. Photographs are organised into the following topics: -Art - Painting, artists, prints, drawing, sculpture, street art, gallery installations, mixed media, children's art, Chinese art, Japanese art, folk art, designers, galleries, photography Crafts - Batik, cakes, china painting, embroidery, glass, jewellery, junk sculpture, lampshades, metalwork, pottery, scrimshaw, seed pictures, spinning, stained glass, weaving, Cook Island weaving, Maori weaving, carving. Other Evening Post prints relating to arts and crafts are in the Evening Post illustrations files at PAColl-7327-1-030 to -034 Quantity: 316 b&w original photographic print(s) with date and caption on reverse.

Date: 1959

Reference: ArtEph-1959-C-01

Description: Exhibition catalogue Two copies held

By: Bell, David (Dr), active 2010

Reference: ArtEph-2010-B-01

Description: Illustrated catalogue of the Alexander Turnbull Library's holdings of Japanese woodblock prints, donated by Sir Joseph Kinsey, 1937 A one-off description and catalogue with introduction. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Printed document, colour illustrations, bound, grey boards, spine height 297 mm

Date: 1888 - 1891

By: Bing, Siegfried, 1838-1905; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: A-055-080/090

Description: Reproductions of coloured Japanese prints, published by Siegfried Bing, in Artistic Japanese prints = Le Japon artistique, Volume 5, 1890. Includes landscapes and genre scenes Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs of woodblock prints, sizes vary, on sheets 385 x 268 mm

Date: 1932

By: Auckland War Memorial Museum

Reference: ArtEph-1932-A-01

Description: Booklet giving background to Chinese and Japanese art traditions, with photographic illustrations.