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Dismantled Maru Obi with Gosho-guruma (Noble’s Carriage) and Palace Veranda
Public Domain

Tankuma Company

Dismantled Maru Obi with Gosho-guruma (Noble’s Carriage) and Palace Veranda

1911

Scroll

Tankuma Company

Dismantled Maru Obi with Gosho-guruma (Noble’s Carriage) and Palace Veranda

1911

Physical Qualities Silk with supplementary wefts of silk, metal-leafed paper strips, and metal-leafed paper strips wrapped around a silk or cotton thread core, 160 x 27 in. (406.4 x 68.6 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Clara Jane Shaull, Monkton, Maryland, from the Collection of Robert S. Shaull
Object Number 1990.302
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift 1990, Clara Jane Shaull, ex. collection Robert S. Shaull, (husband) by purchase in Manchuria.
Anita Jones and Ann Marie Moeller, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, "Kimono and Obi: Romantic Echoes from Japan's Golden Age," July 10, 2016 - January 15, 2017.

Inscribed: Marked at one end in black ink with a hexagon containing a number, letter, or character. Stamped in blue ink enclosed in rectangle: "Tankuma".

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