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The Barbara Curtis Adachi Hands of Japan Collection

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  • "Adachi Hands of Japan Collection"

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  • "This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notes, slides, audio and video cassettes, negatives, transparencies, articles, books, ephemera, postcards and realia objects. Materials created and collected for the Hands of Japan series (1971-1981) and The Living Treasures of Japan (1973) include recorded interviews on audio tapes, slides, photographs, negatives, notes and printed materials. The areas of Japanese arts, handicrafts and performing arts covered in this series include: bamboo crafts, basket weaving, brooms, brushes, calligraphy, carpentry, combs, embroidery, fans, furniture, gardening, homespun, kabuki theater, kettles, kites, knives, lacquers, netsuke carving, papermaking, confectioneries, pottery, puppet theaters, scissors, sieves, tatamis, textiles, umbrellas, and woodblock prints (ukiyoe). Manuscripts include her published works, such as The Living Treasures of Japan, the Hands of Japan series, and other newspaper articles, as well as non-published works, such as notes written for lectures and book proposals. Printed materials for Kabuki performances held at Kabuki-za, the National Theatre of Japan, and other theaters include Japanese and English programs, fliers, and synopses, dated 1971-1995."

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  • "The Barbara Curtis Adachi Hands of Japan Collection"

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