Art Institute of Chicago

Fragment (From an Obi)

Unrecorded artist

Meiji period (1868–1912)/ Taishô period (1912–1926)/ Shôwa period (1926–1989)/ Heisei period (1989–present), 20th century

Attribution

Japan

Medium

Silk and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with bands of 1:1 plain gauze weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary brocading wefts

Physical dimensions

52.6 × 70.1 cm (20 3/4 × 27 5/8 in.); Weft repeat: H.: 35.5 cm (14 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus