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Bugaku dance costume (hanpi)
Japanese
Edo period
17th or 18th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk plain-weave ground with silk discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts, embroidered
Dimensions
89.5 x 78.1 cm (35 1/4 x 30 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Frederick Brown Fund
Accession Number31.440b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionBugaku dance vest (hanpi) with overall design of interlacing diamond pattern surrounding phoenix and paulownia motifs embroidered in red, pink, yellow, green, blue and white silk on a dark blue plain-weave silk ground. The neck, front and sleeve openings are trimmed with reddish-orange twill-weave silk with paulownia motifs created by discontinuous supplementary patterning wefts. There is a wide band of double-layer black, plain-weave silk, pleated at the sides, along the bottom edge and a pale blue, plain-weave silk lining. This vest is part of a three-piece Bugaku dance costume (tsune shôzoku) in the collection.
Provenance1931, sold by Yamanaka and Co., New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 2, 1931)