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  • Art Institute Chicago
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A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquer-paper strips, complex gauze weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by areas of 1:2 'z' twill interlacing; lined with silk, plain weave; dyed with beni, safflower.

Chôken (Noh Costume)

late Edo period (1789–1868), 1825/1875

Japan

Japan

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquer-paper strips, complex gauze weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by areas of 1:2 'Z' twill interlacing; lined with silk, plain weave; dyed with beni, safflower

Textiles