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Collections

Samurai-Class Woman’s Summer Formal Robe (goshodoki katabira)late Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century

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Japanese kimono displayed flat in a T-shape, powder-blue silk ground densely embroidered with scattered small flowers in purple, orange, pink, and yellow, with reed and cloud motifs
Detail of a Japanese textile with light blue ground, featuring embroidered and dyed cherry blossoms in white, purple, orange, and gold above a brushwork fence of bundled reeds tied with gold cord, with birds in flight among the grasses.
Detail of a kimono textile in pale blue, densely embroidered with flowing water, grasses, bamboo, and scattered blossoms in orange, purple, green, white, and gold.
Silk kimono panel with pale blue ground, densely patterned with scattered cherry blossoms, chrysanthemums, bamboo, and rocks in red, purple, green, gold, and white; fine resist-dyeing and embroidered details throughout.
Title
Samurai-Class Woman’s Summer Formal Robe (goshodoki katabira)
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century
Medium
Ramie (chōma) plain weave, paste-resist dyed (yūzen) and stenciled imitation tie-dyed (kata kanoko shibori), with silk- and gilt-paper-wrapped-silk thread embroidery
Dimensions
Center back length: 74 1/2 in. (189.23 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the 1992 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
AC1992.42.1
Classification
Costumes
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.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993, vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).