About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Fukusa (Gift Cover)
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Place
- Japan (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1912–1926
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Medium
- Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, twill weave, self-patterned by areas of plain interlacing; dye extracted through stenciled chemical dye stripper (bassen); Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze); painted with India ink (sumi) and gold paint; silk, running "controlling" stitches along all edges; corners: silk, oblique interlacing over wrapped cotton ball, knotted and re-plied fringe tassels
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Inscriptions
- The black ink inscription in the lower right hand corner on the white reads "When 75 he painted this picture." Artist's seal is below this.
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Dimensions
- 77.6 × 66 cm (30 1/2 × 26 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
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Reference Number
- 2001.230