Fukusa (Gift Cover)
Artwork Details
- Date
- late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century
- Medium
- Pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); lining: silk, plain weave with creped wefts (chirimen, hitokoshi); sewn with padded lining extending beyond front on all four sides (Yatsuzuma); corners: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, 1:1 tubular oblique interlacing over cotton core, knotted; gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk wrapped cotton ball, and re-plied fringe tassels
- Culture
- Japan
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
