Furisode

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Textiles

18th century, late Edo period (1789–1868)

Japan

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Department: Textiles

Title: Furisode
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 1701–1800
Medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound on reverse face by secondary binding warps in plain interlacing; lined in red silk crepe (chirimen), plain weave; padded in silk, non-woven; dyed with safflower (beni)
Dimensions: 192.9 × 124.9 cm (76 × 49 1/8 in.); Pattern repeat: 27.1 × 5.6 cm (10 5/8 × 2 5/8 in.); Shoulder to hem length: H.: 101.3 cm (39 7/8 in.); Sleeve length: H.: 91.7 cm (36 1/8 in.); Collar back to hem length: H.: 10.1 cm (4 in.); Width at hem: H.: 68.5 cm (27 in.); Width of sleeve panel: H.: 30.3 cm (11 7/8 in.); Width of center front panel hem overlap: H.: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Professor S. Choyo through the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1894.1098
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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, no. 1 (1992): 40, cat. no. 27, pl. 28 (ill.).
Iwao Nagasaki, Japanese Textiles in American Collections (Tokyo: Shogakukan, Inc., 1995), 149, cat. no. 146.

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, Aug. 14, 1998-Feb. 3, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Asian Art, Ando Gallery, Aug. 21-Oct. 29, 2003.

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