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Kesa

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork Details

Date
late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 1850/90
Medium
Heri, yô, and jô: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten and niten: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; cords: silk, twill oblique interlacing; lining: cotton, weft-faced mixed twill weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats
Culture
Japan
Public Domain
Yes
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