About This Artwork

Japan

Fukusa (Gift Cover), Late Edo/early Meiji period, 1800/83

Patterned side: silk, plain weave; resist dyed; lined with silk, plain weave (possibly dyed with safflower); sewn with front and lining matched in size; corners: silk, knotted, cut fringe tassels
38.3 x 42.2 cm (15 1/8 x 16 5/8 in.)
Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays, 2001.215