About This Artwork

Japan

Fukusa (Gift Cover), Taishô period (1912–1926), 1912/26

Patterned side: silk, plain weave; stenciled and resist dyed (yûzenzome: utsushinori yûzenzome and hikizome); lined with silk, plain weave (possibly dyed with safflower (benibana); sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase)
64.5 x 65 cm (25 3/8 x 25 5/8 in.)
Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays, 2001.229