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Silk, twill weave; gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips; lined with silk, plain weave
Dimensions
168.2 × 146.3 cm (66 1/4 × 57 5/8 in.)
Shoulder to hem length: 56.3 cm (22 1/4 in.)
Sleeve length: 103.2 cm (40 5/8 in.)
Width at hem: 75.7 cm (29 3/4 in.)
Width of sleeve panel: 38.3 cm (15 1/8 in.)
Width of center front panel hem overlap: 21.7 cm (8 1/2 in.)
Width of collar band: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Natalie Gookin in memory of Frederick W. Gookin
Reference Number
1936.149
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Art Institute of Chicago, Bulletin XXX (Nov. 1936): 81.
Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 55, no. 3 (Sept. 1961): 41, 60 (ill.).
Mary V. Hays and Ralph E. Hays, “Nô Drama Costumes and Other Japanese Costumes.” “Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono: On the Sleeve of Fondest Dreams.” Special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, 1 (1992): 38, cat. no. 7, pl. 9 (ill.).
Iwao Nagasaki, Japanese Textiles in American Collections (Tokyo: Shogakukan, Inc., 1995), 155, no. 153.
Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono: On this Sleeve of Fondest Dream, Mar. 7–June 7, 1992, cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Ando Gallery, Apr. 30-Aug. 11, 1998.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Ando Gallery, Oct. 28, 2003-Jan. 12, 2004.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Gallery 108, Oct. 22, 2013-Jan. 17, 2014.
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