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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Visiting Card
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Visiting Card

subject (Yokohama, 1862 - 1913, Akakura)
Date13 March 1904
MediumInk on card stock
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.004141
eMuseum ID728184
EmbARK ObjectID30119
Other NumberU3n112
TMS Source ID13701
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryOkakura Kakuzō (1862-1913) possibly gave this visiting card to Isabella Stewart Gardner during a social visit. In English, the card reads horizontally, from left to right, “Mr. Kakuzō Okakura.” Turning the card ninety degrees clockwise, the card reads from top to bottom in Japanese, “Okakura Kakuzō.” “Okakura” is his family name, while “Kakuzō” is his personal name.
BibliographyNotesTalia Andrei, "Isabella's Reliquary of Friendship: Her Bond with Okakura Kakuzō," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 18 October 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabellas-reliquary-friendship-her-bond-okakura-kakuzo
MarksNotesVisiting card printed with Kakuzo Okakura's name in Japanese.
Inscribed in ink by the author (recto): Mr. Kakuzo Okakura