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Textile sample
Japanese
late Edo (Bakumatsu) to early Meiji era
mid to late 19th century
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk plain-weave, stencil resist-dyed (katazome, komon kata), hand drawn paste resist-dyed and painted (kaki-e, yûzen)
Dimensions
29.3 x 36.8 cm
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number98.316
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionTextile sample with design of bamboo and sparrow in brown, orange and gray, created by the yûzen technique, and a plum blossom motif composed of a minute white dot pattern on a blue ground created by stencil resist-dyeing (katazome, komon kata).
ProvenanceGift to MFA in August, 1898