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Kesa

Art Institute of Chicago

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Date
late Edo period (1789–1868), 1800/50
Medium
Heri, yô, shiten: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘Z’ twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘Z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; jô: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts and complementary self-patterning ground wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:9 satin interlacings; lining: silk, plain weave
Culture
Japan
Public Domain
Yes
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