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A work made of silk, plain weave (chirimen); resist-dyed and painted (hon yûzenzome: itome and tsutsugaki); embroidered with silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in single back and stem stitches; laid work and couching.

Kuro Tomesode

Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1915

Japan

Japan

Silk, plain weave (chirimen); resist-dyed and painted (hon yûzenzome: itome and tsutsugaki); embroidered with silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in single back and stem stitches; laid work and couching

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