Kesa
1801–1850
- Medium
- Silk and gilt-paper strip; twill weave with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; silk tassels
- Dimensions
- 150.4 × 213.3 cm (59 1/4 × 84 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)edo (japanese period)Textilepaper (fiber product)weaving
About
The fabric for this trapezoidal robe made for the Jodo sect is a famous type known in Japan as nishiki kinran a brocade that combines silk in various rich colors (nishiki) with flat gilt-paper thread (kinran). The pattern combines two types of dragons with two types of cloud designs in a Chinese manner. An inscription on the lining records that the robe was donated to the temple on February 14th (no year cited) by the presiding priest, a member of the 23rd generation of the family that owned the temple.