Summer Kimono (Hitoe)

Textiles

About 1900–1916

Japan

This hitoe (an unlined summer kimono) is patterned with leaves and water irises, a traditional Japanese motif. The use of bold colors, stylized natural forms, and curvilinear renderings alludes to the possible influence of Art Nouveau. The layered textures from both the gauze weave and the resulting undulation of the shibori technique contrasts with the flat stenciling technique applied to the surface, giving the appearance not of the actual flowers, but of their reflection in rippling water.

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Department: Textiles

Title: Summer Kimono (Hitoe)
Place: Japan (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1895–1921
Medium: Silk, plain weave self-patterned by rows of gauze crossings (yoko-ro); resist- dyed (shibori) and stenciled (kata yûzen-zome)
Dimensions: 141.9 × 126.4 cm (55 7/8 × 49 3/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 74.4 cm (29 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays
Reference Number: 1999.594
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Merrily A. Peebles with Tomoyuki Yamanobe, Dressed in Splendor: Japanese Costume, 1700-1926, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1987), 35, cat. 46 (ill.).

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dressed in Splendor, June 27-Aug. 9 1987, cat. 46.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Gift, Bequest, and Purchase: 1998–2003, Oct. 22, 2004–Apr. 17, 2005.
Art Institute of Chicago, Elizabeth F. Cheney and Agnes Allerton Textile Galleries, Japanese Kimono: 1915-1940, From Tradition to Ready-to-Wear, June 16-Nov. 18, 2011.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Art Galleries, Gallery 108, Sep. 17, 2021-Mar. 24, 2022.

Winnie Dahl, Oakland, CA, and Tokyo, probably late 1970s [this and the following according to information provided by donors in curatorial object file]; sold to Mary V. Hays (1920-2002, born Van Artsdalen) and Ralph E. Hays (1920-2010), Los Gatos, CA, Aug. 1977 [Hays inventory no. 77.72; incoming receipt RX22608, Oct. 29, 1999; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.

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