The periphery of the periphery : “typical” East Asian objects in Slovenian households

Hrvatin, Klara (author)

On the basis of individual East Asian objects from small Slovenian towns, which were not the subject of the collecting practices in Slovenia organised so far but were in the posses-sion of individuals and used or held in a certain family, we will reconstruct a picture of the cultural and material connections between the Slovenian southwestern municipality Ilirs-ka Bistrica and the East Asian region. We are particularly interested in who their owners were and what kind of East Asian objects they kept in their homes. Can we speak of “typ-ical” East Asian objects in Slovenian households? The subject of this research will mainly be objects from the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, which coincides with the period when the most representative Slovenian collectors, such as Alma Karlin (1889‒1950), Ivan Skušek Jr. (1877‒1947) and Ivan John Jager (1871‒1959), gathered objects that today form the bulk of the East Asian collections in Slovenia.

• Language: English
• Keywords: East Asian objects, Japanese porcelain, postcards
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 199-223
• Numbering: Vol. 13 (29), iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-178208
• UDC: 069.5(292.57)
• ISSN on article: 2232-5131
• DOI: 10.4312/as.2025.13.1.193-223
• COBISS.SI-ID: 223219971
• Publication date in RUL: 21.01.2026

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

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• 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.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Periferija periferije : »tipični« vzhodnoazijski predmeti v slovenskih gospodinjstvih

Abstract

Na podlagi posameznih vzhodnoazijskih predmetov iz manjših slovenskih krajev, ki niso bili predmet organiziranega zbiranja, temveč so bili v lasti posameznikov, bomo rekon-struirali sliko kulturnih in materialnih povezav med jugozahodno slovensko občino Ilir-sko Bistrico in vzhodnoazijskim prostorom. Še posebej nas bo zanimalo, kdo so bili nji-hovi lastniki in kakšne vzhodnoazijske predmete so hranili v svojih domovih. Ali lahko govorimo o »tipičnih« vzhodnoazijskih predmetih v slovenskih gospodinjstvih? Raziskava se osredinja predvsem na predmete, ki sodijo v obdobje konca 19. in začetka 20. stoletja, kar sovpada z obdobjem, ko so najbolj reprezentativni slovenski zbiratelji, kot so Alma Karlin (1889‒1950), Ivan Skušek mlajši (1877‒1947) in Ivan John Jager (1971‒1959), zbirali predmete, ki danes predstavljajo glavnino vzhodnoazijskih zbirk v Sloveniji.

• Keywords: vzhodnoazijski predmeti, japonski porcelan, razglednice, Slovenija

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J6-3133-2021
• Name: Osiroteli predmeti: obravnava vzhodnoazijskih predmetov izven organiziranih zbirateljskih praks v slovenskem prostoru

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P6-0243-2019
• Name: Azijski jeziki in kulture