Cloth at Home : Consumption of Indonesian Textiles Viewed from Shige Oomura Collection (National Museum of Ethnology Japan)
Rie Taguchi (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature/RIHN)
The aim of this paper is to examine one case about Japanese consumption of Indonesian Textiles as globalized commodity, by analyzing the museum collection. The collection is “Shige Oomura collection” in National Museum of Ethnology（NME）and consisted of all household goods (over 10,000 items) used for her everyday life. The contents of Shige Oomura’s house at Kyoto were donated to NME after her death at Denpasar, Bali, 1999.
In this paper, I will explore 4 points as the following:
1) Outline and specific character of “Shige Oomura collection” in NME.
2) Relationship between Japan-Indonesia experienced by S. Ooumura
3) Indonesian Textiles in Oomura collection and How these textiles were Japanized at her home.
4) Indonesian Textiles embedded in her social relationships
5) Cloth as gift and stock in two local contexts
Indonesian Textiles in Oomura collection show us not only relationships between local craft traditions and global consumerism, but also local craft consumption in Japanese cont
