Dancing with the fan : the role and value of a Japanese fan and kimonos in the transmission of Japanese culture by Marija Tsuneko Skušek

Visočnik, Nataša (author)

The article addresses several issues concerning a Japanese fan and the kimonos found in the collection of Ivan Skušek from Slovene Ethnographic Museum. They belonged to Ivan Skušek’s Japanese wife Marija Tsuneko Skušek, and were after her death donated to the museum together with other objects from the Skušek collection. With analysing these items and researching the life of Marija Tsuneko Skušek the article discusses the roles these objects had in transmitting Japanese culture to Slovene audience with a focus on the Japanese dances as one way of transmission. During her life in Ljubljana, Marija Skušek in one way adopted to the Slovene society very quickly, but on the other hand she presented Japanese culture and her identity in several lectures along with Japanese songs, dances and a tea ceremony. With researching the roles and values of these object in the museum collection, the article also discusses the importance of understanding not only the physical appearance of the items and their life, but also the wider background of items and collection, focusing also on the owner of these items in the relation to the collector. It is also important to stress how these objects transformed from daily objects of use to rarefied art after they were handed over to the museum, and within this process their value also changed.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Tsuneko Kondo Kawase, Japanese culture, East Asian collection, fan maiōgi, kimono, dance, transmission of culture, everyday object
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 199-221
• Numbering: Vol. 9 (25), no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-131555
• UDC: 069.5:930.85(520)
• ISSN on article: 2232-5131
• DOI: 10.4312/as.2021.9.3.199-221
• COBISS.SI-ID: 77234947
• Publication date in RUL: 29.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian studies
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 2232-5131
• COBISS.SI-ID: 265206272

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 10.09.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Ples s pahljačo : vloga in pomen japonske pahljače in kimon v prenosu japonske kulture Marije Tsuneko Skušek

Abstract

Članek obravnava več vprašanj, ki se nanašajo na japonsko pahljačo in kimone iz zbirke Ivana Skuška v Slovenskem etnografskem muzeju. Pripadali so ženi Ivana Skuška, Mariji Tsuneko Skušek, in so bili po njeni smrti predani muzeju skupaj s celotno zbirko Ivana Skuška. Članek z analizo teh predmetov in raziskovanjem življenja Marije Tsuneko Skušek razpravlja o vlogi, ki so jo imeli ti predmeti pri posredovanju japonske kulture slovenskemu občinstvu, s poudarkom na japonskih plesih kot enem od načinov prenosa. Marija Skušek je bila v Ljubljani zelo hitro sprejeta v slovensko družbo, hkrati je tudi pogosto predstavljala japonsko kulturo, in sicer z izvajanjem predavanj ter japonskih pesmi, plesov in čajnega obreda. Z raziskovanjem vlog in vrednosti teh predmetov v muzejski zbirki članek razpravlja tudi o pomenu razumevanja ne samo fizičnega videza predmetov in njihovega življenja, temveč tudi širšega ozadja predmetov in zbirke, pri čemer se osredotoča na lastnico teh predmetov v odnosu do ustvarjalca zbirke. Pomembno je poudariti, kako so se ti predmeti po predaji muzeju iz vsakdanjih uporabnih predmetov spremenili v redko umetnost, s čimer se je spremenila tudi njihova vrednost.

• Keywords: Marija Skušek, japonska kultura, pahljača maiōgi, kimono, ples, vzhodnoazijske zbirke, prenos kulture, vsakdanji predmeti, zasebne zbirke, pahljače

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J7-9429
• Name: Vzhodnoazijske zbirke v Sloveniji: vpetost slovenskega prostora v globalno izmenjavo predmetov in idej z Vzhodno Azijo