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2015

  • Work on this object began.

2016

2025

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Mabushi (Silk Cocoon Crate)

This is a Mabushi (Silk Cocoon Crate).

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from NUNO Corporation as part of Scraps.

It is dated 2015. Its medium is wood, metal, paperboard, plastic.

This object was donated by Tsuruoka City. It is credited Courtesy of Matsuoka Co. Ltd..

  • Winder, Silk
  • wood, carved and turned.
  • Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
  • 1925-1-356-a,b

Our curators have highlighted 5 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:

  • Drawing, Reeling Silk
  • pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on white laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-171
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  • Drawing, The Production of Silk
  • pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, black chalk on laid paper.
  • Museum purchase through gift of various donors.
  • 1901-39-303

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 114 × 55 × 35 cm (44 7/8 × 21 5/8 × 13 3/4 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Scraps.

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