Art Institute of Chicago

Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Unrecorded artist

late Edo (1789–1868)/early Meiji period (1868–1912), 1800/83

Attribution

Japan

Medium

Patterned side: silk, plain weave; resist dyed; lined with silk, plain weave (possibly dyed with safflower); sewn with front and lining matched in size; corners: silk, knotted, cut fringe tassels

Physical dimensions

38.3 × 42.2 cm (15 1/8 × 16 5/8 in.)

Credit line

Gift of Mary V. and Ralph E. Hays