Kosode

Textiles

late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century

Japan

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Title: Kosode
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 1801–1900
Medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 'Z' twill interlacings; lined with silk, plain weave, creped wefts, dyed with safflower
Dimensions: 180.5 × 125.8 cm (71 × 49 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Robert D. Graff
Reference Number: 1957.154
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Mary V. Hays and Ralph E. Hays, “No Drama Costumes and Other Japanese Costumes in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Museum Studies 18, 1 (1992), p. 40, cat. no. 26.
Iwao Nagasaki. Japanese Textile in American Collections (Tokyo: Shogakukan, Inc., 1995), p. 148, cat. no. 145.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Regenstein Hall, Five Centuries of Japanese Kimono: On this Sleeve of Fondest Dream, March 7–June 7, 1992

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