Tibor Horváth archeologist, orientalist, art historian, was the director of the Ferenc Hopp Museum. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death our museum organised a commemorative conference that was followed by a short naming ceremony related to the inauguration of the Tibor Horváth Reading Room. More ❯❯❯

The aim of the present article is to present the significance and functionality of the raincoat in the religious life of the Far Eastern societies, as experienced nearly 115 years ago by Count Péter Vay (1863-1948), missionary and Asia explorer; and Dr. Dezső Bozóky (1871-1957), naval surgeon of the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy, globe trotter and collector, during their voyages to Japan. Parallel to the documents of the time, which have now become the subject of museological research, the survival of the raincoat as a ritual object will be further examined as a result of my cultural anthropological fieldwork in 2012. More ❯❯❯