Object Number | 2003-42-20.2 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Japanese |
Provenience | Japan |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Paper |
Iconography | Bird |
Inscription Language | Japanese Language |
Description | Incomplete set of Japanese playing cards with various birds on them and one with a man in a hat who is probably a bird catcher. The birds are: 鴨 カモ (Duck), 鶴 ツル (Crane), 鳩 ハト (Pigeon), 鳶 トビ (Black Kite), 雀 スズメ (Tree Sparrow), 鶉 ウヅラ (Quail). |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
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