Textile crafts, Japanese: Oshibori [002]

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Title Textile crafts, Japanese: Oshibori [002]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 27, Japan, Customs, 96
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1982
Subject Towels--Japan--Photographs; Baskets
Keywords Oshibori
Spatial Coverage Kyoto (Japan)
Description Photo shows a traditional "oshibori" in basket at the Mino Kuchiya restaurant in Kyoto, Japan
Caption on Slide Oshibori Melon + tea Mino Kuchiya rest. Kyoto, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. "An oshibori (おしぼり or お絞り) or hot towel in English is a wet hand towel offered to customers in places such as restaurants or bars in Japan and in Japanese restaurants worldwide. Oshibori are used to clean one's hands before eating, and have long been a common sight in Japan. Cold oshibori are used in summer, and hot oshibori in winter. In mah-jong parlors, the words atsushibo and tsumeshibo, from the Japanese words atsui (熱い), hot, and tsumetai (冷たい), cold, are sometimes used to refer to hot and cold oshibori respectively."--Wikipedia
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6ww80sw
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 332764
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ww80sw
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