Art Institute of Chicago

Kesa

Unrecorded artist

late Edo period (1789–1868), late 18th/early 19th century

Attribution

Japan

Medium

Silk, warp ikat, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with supplementary brocading wefts; patches: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z' twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warp and supplementary patterning wefts; lined in 4:1 satin damask weave

Physical dimensions

116.7 × 206 cm (45 7/8 × 81 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Frances Gaylord Smith