Indigo paste: Ai-ro
Indigo paste: Ai-ro
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- Description
- Small glass bottle of powdered pigment used for printing Japanese woodblocks. Paper label in English with color name transliterated from Japanese; separate label with catalogue number. Each bottle is stopped with small cork.
- Indigo paste: Ai-ro
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- pigment
- Measurements
- overall: 8 cm x 3 cm; 3 5/32 in x 1 3/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.03445
- catalog number
- 03445
- accession number
- 23218
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
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- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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