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Maru Obi featuring Genji-guruma (Noble’s Carriage Wheels)
Public Domain

Maru Obi featuring Genji-guruma (Noble’s Carriage Wheels)

1911

Scroll

Maru Obi featuring Genji-guruma (Noble’s Carriage Wheels)

1911

Physical Qualities Silk with supplementary wefts of silk, metal-leafed paper strips, metal-leafed paper strips wrapped around silk or cotton thread core, 166 x 12-7/8 in.
Credit Line Bequest of Sylvia G. Straton, Rhinebeck, New York
Object Number 2002.687
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest , 2002; Sylvia G. Straton, Rhinebeck, New York
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.

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