Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Artwork details

Date:

Mid–/late Meiji period (1868–1912), c. 1895/1912

Medium:

Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, plain weave (shioze); stencil resist dyed; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laidwork and couching; Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze); painted with India ink (sumi) and paint; stamped; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges

Culture:

Japan

Dimensions:

2083 × 2250 px

Museum record:

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