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Woman’s Kimono-Style Jacket (Haori) with Antarctic Landscape of Penguins on Ice with Icebreaker Shipsmid-Shōwa period (1926-1989), 1957-58

Not on view
Japanese haori jacket in white fabric with an allover ink-wash pattern of floating sea ice, black-and-white penguins, and red-hulled ships
Diptych oil painting of fractured white ice floes with green and pink gaps, scattered with small groups of black-and-white penguins with red markings; a dark vessel with a red hull appears in the upper left panel, viewed from above with loose brushwork.
Painting with loose brushwork depicting a bird's-eye view of fragmented ice floes in white, gray, and black, with patches of green and pink. Several penguins with red-tipped heads stand on the ice in the lower portion; a dark vessel with a red hull navigates open water near the top.
Title
Woman’s Kimono-Style Jacket (Haori) with Antarctic Landscape of Penguins on Ice with Icebreaker Ships
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
mid-Shōwa period (1926-1989), 1957-58
Medium
Silk plain weave, stencil-printed warp and weft (heiyō kasuri meisen)
Dimensions
Center back length: 27 1/4 in. (69.22 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of B. Rich
Accession Number
M.2012.188.62
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.