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Dônuki

A work made of silk, plain weave (heiken); tie-dyed resist (shibori and hitta shibori); silk, plain weave; resist dyed, stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushi nori, suri yûzenzome and hikizome), and painted with red and india ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-
over-lacquered-paper-strip-
wrapped silk; in satin and single back stitches, laid work and couching.

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  • A work made of silk, plain weave (heiken); tie-dyed resist (shibori and hitta shibori); silk, plain weave; resist dyed, stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushi nori, suri yûzenzome and hikizome), and painted with red and india ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-
over-lacquered-paper-strip-
wrapped silk; in satin and single back stitches, laid work and couching.

Date:

Meiji period (1868–1912), c. 1900

Artist:

Japan

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Dônuki

Place

Japan (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1890–1910

Medium

Silk, plain weave (heiken); tie-dyed resist (shibori and hitta shibori); silk, plain weave; resist dyed, stenciled (yûzenzome: utsushi nori, suri yûzenzome and hikizome), and painted with red and India ink (sumi); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf- over-lacquered-paper-strip- wrapped silk; in satin and single back stitches, laid work and couching

Dimensions

170.7 × 129.8 cm (66 3/4 × 51 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays

Reference Number

1999.587

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