Kesa
1800–1868
- Medium
- Hiri, yô, jô: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with 1:3 ‘S’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts; shiten and nitens: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:2 ‘Z’ twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: silk, plain weave; paper, interlining
- Dimensions
- 116.9 × 212.7 cm (46 × 83 3/8 in.); Repeat: 26 × 7.6 cm (10 1/4 × 3 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)late edoTextilepaper (fiber product)weaving