- Title
- Kosode (Kimono) Fragment with Decorated Shells
- Date Made
- Edo period (1615-1868), second half of the 17th century
- Medium
- Silk satin (shusu), stitch-resist dyed (nuishime shibori) and stenciled imitation tie-dyed (kata kanoko), with silk and gilt-paper-wrapped-silk thread embroidery
- Dimensions
- 25 1/4 × 13 1/8 in. (64.14 × 33.34 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.39.2.288
- 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.