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Kosode (Kimono) Fragment with Mountains, Snowflake Roundels, Wisteria, and Plants of the Four Seasonslate Momoyama period (1573 – 1615)

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Silk embroidered textile fragment on rust-orange ground with landscape motifs in blue, gold, and green, including cascading floral branches, cloud forms, and rocky banks
Embroidered silk textile panel with a salmon-pink ground, depicting a garden landscape with trailing blue wisteria, flowering trees, grasses, and rocks, worked in polychrome silk and metallic gold threads with fine detail.
Title
Kosode (Kimono) Fragment with Mountains, Snowflake Roundels, Wisteria, and Plants of the Four Seasons
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late Momoyama period (1573 – 1615)
Medium
Silk figured satin (rinzu), tie-dyed (nuishime, bochi, and kanako shibori), silk embroidery, and traces of gold metallic-leaf
Dimensions
27 1/2 × 11 7/8 in. (69.85 × 30.16 cm)
Credit Line
Costume Council Fund
Accession Number
M.85.188
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.