{"id":556,"date":"2025-10-17T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iam.tugraz.at\/research\/skusek\/?p=556"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T11:36:27","slug":"05_a-house-shrine-and-tea-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iam.tugraz.at\/research\/skusek\/2025\/10\/17\/05_a-house-shrine-and-tea-room\/","title":{"rendered":"05_A House Shrine and Tea Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Exploring the lived-in showroom<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Archival material for the reconstruction of the lived-in showroom which the Sku\u0161eks created is limited. They lived in at least three different places during their years together in Ljubljana with the collection they brought from China. Several photographs, some of which are clearly staged, and a movie allow some insight into the design and also functionality of the various objects.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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2-minute short film showing Tsuneko in her apartment, Uploaded to Youtube by Slovene Ethnographic Museum \u00a9 Filmske novosti Beograd, 1957<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Especially the movie, produced in 1957 when Tsuneko was already widowed, displays how small the spaces and how dense the arrangement must have been. Among all the various objects and sets, a dresser with Buddhist sculptures placed on it, stands out. One of the non-staged photographs depicts Tsuneko visited by a friend having tea or coffee in front of that dresser.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tsuneko next to the dresser, Screenshot by Gerald Kozicz \u00a9 Filmske novosti Beograd, 1957<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Close-up shot of the dresser displaying the sculptures, Screenshot by Gerald Kozicz \u00a9 Filmske novosti Beograd, 1957<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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When the couple exhibited some of their collection at the 1930 Ljubljana Grand Fair, it was again that configuration of dresser and Buddhist images which was displayed. It is well documented on photographs, one of which shows Tsuneko\u2018s daughter Erika dressed in an original Chinese costum playing the lute, probably taken at the Fair. (Kozicz, Luo, Fr\u00fchwirt 2025: 97, fig. 4; cf. Berdajs 2021: 164, fig. 10) The figurines were certainly among the most impressive objects, but it seems that they were also of specific personal importance to Tsuneko. The mode of display and also the order of arangement, which remains widely unchanged through the years, suggest that they functioned as a personal reminder of her early life in Japan and China, or even more than that: a personal shrine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Dresser being exhibited during the 2025 exhibition “Asia in the Heart of Ljubljana: The Life of the Sku\u0161ek Collection” at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Photograph \u00a9 Max Fr\u00fchwirt 2025<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Choosing the dresser and the sculptures, of which the majority are bronzes, as the core of the virtual showroom is a logical step. We also aim to include the table, which is not only shown on photographs but also presented centrally in the 1957 movie to visualise also the ambiguity of the original constellation and the different functionalities which the space could be adjusted to.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Berdajs, Tina (2021) \u2018Retracing the Footsteps: Analysis of the Sku\u0161ek Collection\u2019, Asian Studies 9, no. 3: \u00a0141\u2013166. Open access URL https:\/\/journals.uni-lj.si\/as\/issue\/view\/739<\/a><\/span><\/p>

Filmske novice 1: Zanimiva zbirka. Avtor Vladimir Peri\u0161i\u0107, \u00a9 Filmske novosti Beograd,1957. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tFDnA8UzBr0<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Kozicz Gerald, Di Luo and Max Fr\u00fchwirt (2025) \u2018The Naval Officer and the Kimonoed Lady\u2019, Orientations Vol. 56, No. 2: \u00a094\u201399.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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