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KInri ryu hoo karakushishi botan zakuro maru moyo nishiki shichijo kesa
Buddhist priest's robe (kesa)
KInri ryu hoo karakushishi botan zakuro maru moyo nishiki shichijo kesa
Japanese
Meiji or Taishō era
early 20th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Appliquéd Nishiki, silk, gilt paper; lampas with 5/1 twill foundation and 1/2 twill supplementary weave (gilt paper) and 2/1 twill supplementary weave (silk) pieced and appliquéd
Dimensions
Height x width: 115.7 x 210 cm (45 9/16 x 82 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number21.198
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionSeven-columned kesa with decoration of dragons and phoenixes. Columns, dividing bands, border: gold silk ground with figured patterns of dragons, phoenixes, Chinese lions, peonies, and pomegranate roundels. On a gold ground the roundels are rendered in supplementary patterning wefts, leaving very little undecorated space. Shiten, niten: white silk three-harness warp-faced twill ground with woven-in designs of cranes and clouds in supplementary wefts of flat gold-leafed paper thread. Lining: peach plain-weave silk.
ProvenanceGift to MFA on March 3, 1921