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A work made of silk, plain weave; resist dyed and painted (yûzenzome: itome hikizome, bokashizome and uwae); embroidered with silk and gold-foil-over-paper-strip-wrapped silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, in individual back, individual straight and knot stitches; laidwork and couching; sleeve lining: silk, plain weave.

Hômongi

Shôwa period (1926–1989), c. 1926

Japan

Japan

Silk, plain weave; resist dyed and painted (yûzenzome: itome hikizome, bokashizome and uwae); embroidered with silk and gold-foil-over-paper-strip-wrapped silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, in individual back, individual straight and knot stitches; laidwork and couching; sleeve lining: silk, plain weave

Textiles