Shoe
1900–1926
- Medium
- Silk, cotton, and gilt-paper strip; plain, twill and satin weaves with secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts, with plied and knotted cords
- Dimensions
- 11.4 × 26.7 × 10.1 cm (4 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 4 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
liturgical - buddhistsilk (fiber)meijiaccessories (object genre)taishoshoes - weavingTextilepaper (fiber product)Japanism
About
Shoes of this type, worn by priests of high rank, are frequently shown in paintings placed on a stool below the chair in which the priest is seated in the lotus position.