About This Artwork

Japan

Fukusa (Gift Cover), Early Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1926/40

Mon side: silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-paper-strip-
wrapped silk in Chinese knots, laidwork and couching; patterned side: silk, satin weave self-patterned by areas of twill interlacings and areas of plain interlacings; woven on a loom with a Jacquard attachment; sewn with front and lining matched in size; three corner: rayon, knotted, re-plied fringe tassels
37.2 x 34.2 cm (14 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays, 2001.239

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Acquired by Hays: July 12, 1990. Keiko Kobayashi