Indigo blue: Ai-gami

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Object Details

Description

Small glass bottle of pigment used for printing Japanese woodblocks. Paper label in English with color name as transliterated from Japanese: Indigo blue: Ai-gami; separate label with catalogue number. No cork; glass broken at top. Bottle contains paper saturated with color which suggests this may be dayflower, Tsu-yu-kusa, rather than indigo which did not come in paper form.

Location

Currently not on view

Credit Line

Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90

ID Number

GA.03444

catalog number

03444

accession number

23218

Object Name

pigment

Object Type

pigment

Measurements

overall: 6 cm x 3 cm; 2 3/8 in x 1 3/16 in

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Work and Industry: Graphic Arts

Communications

Tokuno Gift

Art

Data Source

National Museum of American History

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-d66c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID

nmah_1323754