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Textile sample
Japanese
Late Edo (Bakumatsu) or early Meiji era
late 19th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk plain-weave, stencil resist-dyed (katazome, kata komon), hand drawn paste resist-dyed and painted (yûzen), embroidered with silk (shishû), couched with gold metallic thread (koma-nui)
Dimensions
Height x width: 12 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. (30.8 x 35.2 cm)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number98.409
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionTextile sample with design of pine tree in gray, black and brown, created by the yûzen process, with embroidered and couched accents in green and brown silk and gold metallic thread, partially visible through a jagged pine bark pattern (matsukawa-bishi) which is made up of a stenciled small repeat pattern (komon) in light and dark gray.
ProvenanceWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection; gift of William Sturgis Bigelow to the MFA in August, 1898