Uchishiki (Altar Cloth)
1801–1825
- Medium
- Square piece of kinran, plain compound silk of orange-brown ground with pattern woven in gilded paper strips finely cut, representing chrysanthemum and peony scrolls, lined with white linen
- Dimensions
- 66.7 × 67 cm (26 1/4 × 26 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)liturgicalritual objectsedo (japanese period)Textilepaper (fiber product)Japanismweaving