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The story of a Japanese festival float model

Discover the story of an intricately carved boat whose history was lost until collaborative investigations with Japanese scholars revealed it to be a model of a Japanese festival float. Festivals have been central to Japanese culture for many centuries and elaborately carved large wooden floats created by specialist artists feature in many of the country's local summer festivals. This model sheds light on the radically changing practice of crafts in the late 19th century during Japan's period of rapid modernisation. Donated to the British Museum in 1908 to mark the Olympic Games in London, it illustrates both the ritual and social function of floats in Japanese history and Japan's relationship with the world. Find out more about this unique object with curator Dr Rosina Buckland as its story emerges for the first time. The model will feature in the display Japan's festival floats, The Asahi Shimbun Displays (Room 3), from 20 April – 2 July 2023. Further objects from Japan are on display in The Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries Rooms 92–94: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect... More information about the display can be found here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibit... Sign up to our newsletters for the latest news on our work, stories about the collection and upcoming events: https://emails.britishmuseum.org/k/Br... We’re bringing inspiring stories of humanity’s shared histories and cultural achievements to millions of people online. Your support ensures that we can continue to make the collection and videos like this one available to as many people as possible. If you can, please donate today: http://ow.ly/1e1Y30qHebG or you can text BMLEARN to 70085. Texts cost £5 plus one standard rate message. Please see our social media code of conduct: http://ow.ly/HGiw30se20t Image credit: Detail on a model of a festival float of a boat, Japan, 1890–1908. Donated by Yamanaka & Co to mark the 1908 Summer Olympics. © The Trustees of the British Museum Collection online: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...