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Kosode (Kimono) Fragment with Abstract Tortoiseshell Pattern, Plum Blossoms, and Waveslate Momoyama (1573-1615)-early Edo (1615-1868) period, Keicho (1996-1615)-Kan'ei (1624-1644) era

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Japanese textile panel, likely a kimono fragment, with silver lattice and black hexagonal woven grounds, embroidered flower clusters in gold, blue, and white, and curving diagonal bands across the surface
Detail of Japanese textile with dark olive ground, featuring a large curved gold tortoiseshell lattice pattern overlaying scattered small blossoms, with embroidered clusters of cherry and plum flowers in blue, copper, and gold.
Title
Kosode (Kimono) Fragment with Abstract Tortoiseshell Pattern, Plum Blossoms, and Waves
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late Momoyama (1573-1615)-early Edo (1615-1868) period, Keicho (1996-1615)-Kan'ei (1624-1644) era
Medium
Silk figured satin (rinzu), tie-resist dyed (kanoko shibori), with silk and gilt-paper-wrapped-silk thread embroidery, and stenciled metallic leaf
Dimensions
27 3/4 × 14 1/8 in. (70.49 × 35.88 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Bella Mabury
Accession Number
M.39.2.293
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Gluckman, Dale Carolyn and Sharon Sadako Takeda et al. When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.