About This Artwork

Japan

Furisode with Fuki, Late Meiji/early Taishô period, late 19th/early 20th century

Silk, gold-leaf-paper strips and gold-leaf-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp ikat, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary patterning and supplementary brocading wefts; lined with silk, plain weave, creped wefts
186.1 x 127.7 cm (73 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.)
Repeat: 3.2 x 2 cm (1 1/4 x 3/4 in.)
Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Frances Gaylord Smith, 1991.940