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Orientations | Volume 55 Number 4 | JULY/AUGUST 2024 8 Two fukusa with 19th century European cotton Japan; Meiji (1868–1912) or Taishō (1912–26) period, late 19th or early 20th century Printed cotton; 73 x 66 cm, each Asian Civilisations Museum, Gift of Chris Hall and anticipation. In our daily lives, we use occasionspecific emojis, stickers, and greeting cards to impart sentiments to others. This exhibition invites visitors to reflect upon the act of gifting in our own time and place, as well as the rituals and materials we engage with when we give presents to others. ‘Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers from the Chris Hall Collection’ is on view until 25 August. A lecture by Dr Christine M. E. Guth, curatorial advisor and contributing author for the exhibition and catalogue, will be held at the Asian Civilisations Museum on 25 July. Louise Lui is Assistant Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Civilisations Museum. All photos are courtesy of Asian Civilisations Museum unless otherwise stated. Selected bibliography Monica Bincsik, Kimono Style: Edo Traditions to Modern Design: The John C. Weber Collection, New York, 2022. Joyce Denney, ‘Japan and the Textile Trade in Context’, in Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800, New York, 2013, pp. 56–65. 118 Edmond de Goncourt, La maison d’un artiste. Paris, 1898. Christine M. E. Guth, ‘Fukusa: From Gift Cover to Fine Art Textile’, in Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers from the Chris Hall Collection, Singapore, 2024, pp. 12–27. Mary V. Hays and Ralph E. Hays, Fukusa: The Shojiro Nomura Fukusa Collection, Oakland, 1983. Kirihata Ken, Konbu’in shozō shishū kakefukusa, Kyoto, 1992. Hiroko T. McDermott, ‘Meiji Kyoto textile art and Takashimaya’, Monumenta Nipponica 65, no. 1 (2010): 37–88. Hiroko T. McDermott and Clare Pollard, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Oxford, 2012. Julia Sapin, ‘Merchandising art and identity in Meiji Japan: Kyoto nihonga artists’ designs for Takashimaya department store, 1868–1912’, Journal of Design History 17, no. 4 (2004): 317–36. Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, ‘Kosode: Design and techniques’, in Kosode: 16th–19th century textiles from the Nomura Collection, New York, 1984, pp. 22–57. Akihiko Takemura, Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers, Tokyo, 1991.
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Orientations | Volume 55 Number 4 | JULY/AUGUST 2024

8 Two fukusa with 19th century European cotton Japan; Meiji (1868–1912) or Taishō (1912–26) period, late 19th or early 20th century Printed cotton; 73 x 66 cm, each Asian Civilisations Museum, Gift of Chris Hall and anticipation. In our daily lives, we use occasionspecific emojis, stickers, and greeting cards to impart sentiments to others. This exhibition invites visitors to reflect upon the act of gifting in our own time and place, as well as the rituals and materials we engage with when we give presents to others.

‘Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers from the Chris Hall Collection’ is on view until 25 August. A lecture by Dr Christine M. E. Guth, curatorial advisor and contributing author for the exhibition and catalogue, will be held at the Asian Civilisations Museum on 25 July.

Louise Lui is Assistant Curator of Chinese Art at the Asian Civilisations Museum.

All photos are courtesy of Asian Civilisations Museum unless otherwise stated.

Selected bibliography

Monica Bincsik, Kimono Style: Edo Traditions to Modern

Design: The John C. Weber Collection, New York, 2022. Joyce Denney, ‘Japan and the Textile Trade in Context’,

in Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800, New York, 2013, pp. 56–65.

118

Edmond de Goncourt, La maison d’un artiste. Paris,

1898. Christine M. E. Guth, ‘Fukusa: From Gift Cover to Fine

Art Textile’, in Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers from the Chris Hall Collection, Singapore, 2024, pp. 12–27. Mary V. Hays and Ralph E. Hays, Fukusa: The Shojiro

Nomura Fukusa Collection, Oakland, 1983. Kirihata Ken, Konbu’in shozō shishū kakefukusa, Kyoto,

1992. Hiroko T. McDermott, ‘Meiji Kyoto textile art and

Takashimaya’, Monumenta Nipponica 65, no. 1 (2010): 37–88. Hiroko T. McDermott and Clare Pollard, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Oxford, 2012. Julia Sapin, ‘Merchandising art and identity in

Meiji Japan: Kyoto nihonga artists’ designs for Takashimaya department store, 1868–1912’, Journal of Design History 17, no. 4 (2004): 317–36. Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, ‘Kosode: Design and techniques’, in Kosode: 16th–19th century textiles from the Nomura Collection, New York, 1984, pp. 22–57. Akihiko Takemura, Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers, Tokyo,

1991.

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