/internal/media/dispatcher/1643220/resize%25253Aformat%25253Dthumbnail;jsessionid=D2EE7BC44DE986EF6B61AA913D608B81Buddhist priest's robe (kesa)late 18th to early 19th centuryHeight x width: 113.3 x 212.7 cm (44 5/8 x 83 3/4 in.)Appliquéd silk, gilt paper; 2/1 twill weave with continuous supplementary wefts (gilt paper) bound in 1/2 twill order and discontinuous supplementary-weft floats (silk) bound at intervals; pieced and appliquéd (Karaori)William Sturgis Bigelow Collection21.2020Seven-columned kesa with decoration of chrysanthemums. Columns, dividing bands, borders, shiten, niten: red silk ground patterned with chrysanthemum bushes in the floats of the supplementary wefts. The supplementary-weft floats are not very long, but the relaxed quality is still apparent. Although the chrysanthemum motifs are a bit stylized, they are not rigid. This is a special characteristic of karaori from the latter half of the eighteenth century through the first half of the nineteenth century. Lining: Purple plain-weave silk, probably of the same period as the outer fabric.Costumes113.30000000002870401