Garments hung on screens
- Medium
- Gold and color on paper
- Genre
- Paintings
Styles
Tags
GeishaJapanese ArtEdo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)ArtCharles Lang Freer collection
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This pair of six-panel folding screens depicts assorted women's garments draped over two folding screens. The stylish kosode, forerunners of the kimono, were sewn from black silk with stenciled gold-leaf decoration. Red silk linings show at the robes' edges.