Living Dolls in museums in Europe and the U.S.A.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370134
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Fukuoka University of Education
• Principal Investigator: HONDA YOSHIKO 福岡教育大学, 教育学部, 講師 (70713527)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 生人形 / 博物館 / 松本喜三郎 / 安本亀八 / 花沼政吉 / 鼠屋伝吉 / 博覧会

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research new lifelike dolls those are three in the United States, 7 in the U.K., 4 in Germany and 4 in Russia were investigated and the related materials were examined. Those dolls were bought by the foreign visitors in Yokohama or collected at Japanese art dealers in their home towns and after then gifted to the museums, It was traced that the doll makers as Kisaburo Matsumoto and Masakichi Hananuma run their workshop by themselves, excepting Kamehachi Yasumoto whose family had two furter successors. Kamehachi Yasumoto's was well known dollmaker inside and outside the country.

Free Research Field

美術史