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- Description
- Brush with wooden handle used for adding color to wood block in Japanese printmaking. Bristles extend across full width of brush, held in place with four lines of stitches. Twine threaded through hole for hanging on rack of GA.03211.01. See illustrations GA.03209.03-.04.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- brush
- Measurements
- overall: 15 cm x 17 cm; 5 29/32 in x 6 11/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.03211.07
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03211.07
- 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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