Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 20. (Budapest, 2001)

Mária FERENCZY: On the history of the Netsuke collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum - on the Occasion of the Publication of its Catalogue

NOTES 1 The Collection Catalogue and this paper are based on research supported by OTKA [National Scientific Research Fund] from the T 025 755 grant 2 Traditional Japanese attire is of pockets, therefore personal belonging - purses, medicine-boxes (inrö), tobacco containers, pipecases, portable writing sets (yatate) etc. were worn suspended from a textile belt 3 Ryüsa: roundish netsuke carved in an open-work design; kagamibuta: "mirror-lid": a metal disc for a special type of manju netsuke of two parts (ivory or wooden bowl and metal disc for cover) 4 Eva CSEH: Japanese Miniature Carving. Netsuke. Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest 2000 (the same in Hungarian: Japán miniatűr faragványok. Necuke. Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 2000) 5 Kaempfer, Engelbert (1651-1716), major publications: History of Japan, Vols. I—

IL, 1727-28; Kaempfer, Engelbert-Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich - Siebold, Philip Franz: Reisen in Nippon. Vlg. der Nation, Berlin, 1974 (3. Auflage) 6 Siebold, Philipp Franz von (1796-1866), major publications: Fauna Japonic a, Vols. I-V, 1833-50; Flora Japonica, Vols. I-II., 1835-70; Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und denen Neben- und Schutzländern, Jezo mit den Südlichen Kurilen. Sachalin, Korea und den Liu-KiuInzeln. Vols. I—

II., Vlg. der K.u.k. Hofbuchhandlung von Leo Woerl, Würzburg und Leipzig, 1897; Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century from the Accounts of Dutch Residents in Japan and from the German Publications of Philipp Franz von Siebold. With an Introduction to the New Edition by Terence Barrow. Tuttle, Rutland and London, 1985

4 7 He set out on his journey to East Asia with his brother, Count József Zichy (1841-1924), in 1875, returning home through Siberia. He delivered several lectures about his journey in the Geographical Society and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 8 Published in the series Értekezések a nyelv- és széptudományok köréből [Essays on Linguistics and the Humanities], Vol. VIII, No. IV, 1879, p. 85, with 17 plates and a map of the temples of Nikko. His other publications: "Észleletek és elmélkedések Japán felett" ["Observations and reflections on Japan"], Publication in Földrajzi Közlemények [Geographical publications] Vol. VII., Booklet 3., Budapest, 1879; "A Boro-budur Jáva szigetén" ["Boro Budur on the island of Java"]. Inaugural dissertation. Publication in MTA Nyelv- és Széptudományi Értekezései [Essays of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on Linguistics and the Humanities], Vol. VIII., Budapest, 1881; "Úti emlékek Chinából" ["Travel Memories from China"], 1876-1877. Publication in Budapesti Szemle [Budapest Gazette], No. 44., Budapest, 1880 9 Ibid. p. 62 10 Jurist, scientist and ethnographer, the founder and first director of the Budapest Zoo, then of the Ethnographic Collection of the Hungarian National Museum 11 Cf. János Xántus: A közoktatásügyi miniszter megbízásából 1869170-ben Kelet-Ázsiában országos költségen gyűjtött s a M. N. Múzeumban ideiglenesen kiállított NEPISMEI TÁRGYAK leíró sorozata [A series of descriptions of ETHNOGRAPHIC OBJECTS collected in East-Asia in 1869170 on the assignment of the Minister of Education and financed from the public budget, exhibited temporarily in the Hungarian National Museum], A. Rudnyánszky, Pest, 1871. The German version: Verzeichniss über die im Auftrage des Unterrichts-Ministeiums in der Jahren 1869-1870 aud Landesunkosten in Ost-Asien gesammelten und derzeit im ung. NationaTMusem aufgestellten ethnographischen Gegenstände. Rudnyánszky A., Pest, 1871. Description of the Japanese items: pp. 3-16 12 Ibid. p. 14 13 Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum. Képes Kalauz a gyűjteményekben [National Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts. An Illustrated Guide to the Collections], written by Jenő Radisics. Franklin Társulat Könyvnyomdája, Budapest, 1885 14 Art historian, university professor. As director of the Museum of Applied Arts, he also bought Far Eastern art works at World's Fairs (kept by the Hopp Museum today) 15 Ibid. p. 26. - The inventory of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts indicates that it is from János Xántus' collection. This item is published in the Count Péter Vay's volume (p. 238) cited int the note No. 17 16 Cf. Országos Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum. Gr. Vay Péter-féle JAPÁN GYŰJTEMÉNY [National Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts. Count Péter Vay's JAPANESE COLLECTION]. Hornyánszky Viktor es. és kir. udv. Könyvnyomdája, Budapest, 1908. With Előszó [Preface] by Dr. Ernő Kammerer (pp. 3—4) 17 Count Péter Vay: A Kelet művészete és múízlése [The Art of the East and its Artistic Taste]. Franklin Kiadó, Budapest, 1908 18 See p. 226 19 See pp. 236-239, items 483-516 20 Coming from Moravia from a modest background, he became an honoured citizen of the Hungarian capital. After 1883, he visited Japan again in 1903 and 1913 21 Journalist and politician. During his trips to Japan in 1880-1883 he bought a significant lacquer comb collection. His collection has been preserved by the Ferenc Hopp Museum 22 Cf. Hopp Museum Documentation Department (hereafter: HMDD), Nos. A 1679/12/9-12. - Apart from Yokohama, the company also had shops in Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The shop owners held constant personal (and commercial) contact with their native country. Curators at the museum, Mónika Bincsik, Györgyi Fajcsák, and myself, are planning to publish an article in the near future about the results of researches aimed at the exploration of the activities of the company, and its role in the collection of Oriental art works in Hungary. 23 Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum. A budapesti