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Textile sample
Japanese
Late Edo to early Meiji era
late 19th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk, gilt paper strips, gold metallic thread; plain-weave crepe (chirimen), hand drawn paste resist-dyed and painted (yûzen), embroidered (shishû, takeyamachi-nui), couched (koma-nui)
Dimensions
26.9 x 42.5 cm (10 9/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number98.229
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionTextile sample with design of a scene from the Noh drama "Shojô" depicting a shojô, or sake-loving sprite, next to a large container of sake near the water's edge in blue, gray, violet, purple, green, yellow, brown, black and white, created by the yûzen process, and accented with embroidered strips of gilt paper and couched with gold metallic thread.
ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA in August, 1898