Kesa
1844–1880
- Medium
- Heri, jô, yô: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘Z’ twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘Z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten, niten: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 ‘S’ twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts, some bound in weft-float faced 1:2, and 1:5 ‘S’ twill interlacings; lining: silk, plain weave self-patterned by rows of 1:1 plain gauze crossings
- Dimensions
- 115.7 × 191.8 cm (45 9/16 × 75 1/2 in.); Repeat: 14.6 × 8.4 cm (5 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)meijilate edoTextilepaper (fiber product)weaving