early Shôwa period (1926–1989), 1926/40
Japan
Japan
Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave; Patterned side: silk, rayon, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, weft-faced, warp-ribbed plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts (gotenori); woven on a loom with a Jacquard attachment