Tsuke Obi Butterfly Bow with attached Obi Aide with Nandina Motif
2009
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Tsuke Obi Butterfly Bow with attached Obi Aide with Nandina Motif
2009
Physical Qualities
Silk, leather or vinyl, coated wire, snaps, 12 × 15 1/2 × 3 in. (30.5 × 39.4 × 7.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Charles W. Newhall III, Baltimore
Object Number
2014.81.1c
A woman's tsuke ready made obi bow knot (butterfly bow) constructed of "brocade" of (synthetic?) metallic gold ground with nandina (nanten) plant featuring red and also gold berries, dark and medium green leaves, blue leaves, purple leaves, and white, light pink, and off-white cherry blossoms created with long (weft) floats. The bow knot has several layers on one side and one layer on the other with ends that protrude out ward from the knot. Two long narrow gold cotton ties are attached at the back and extend to the sides. A small patch of plain beige silk is found on the reverse center. The bow is attached to an obi aide - a stiffened pink and white fabric covered piece (of leather or vinyl) with two snaps. A stiff covered wire wraps around the wider portion of the aide and holds an oval fabric - covered form between the backing and the bow itself, thus giving the bow height or fullness. This piece appears to be almost entirely hand sewn.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2014; Charles Newhall, Baltimore by purchase, Tokyo, Japan
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https://www.fcs.uga.edu/ss/docs/gunter_susan_e_200305_ms.pdf.
Jill Liddell, "The Story of the Kimono." New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989.
Seiroku Noma, "Japanese Costume and Textile Arts." New York: Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1983.
Norio Yomanaka, "The Book of Kimono." Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1986.
Ken-Ichi Kawakatsu, "Kimono." Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, 1954.
Ishimura Hayao and Muriyama Nobuhiko, "Robes of Elegance, Japanese Kimonos of the 16th-20th Centuries." Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1988.
Merrily A. Peebles, "Dressed in Splendor: Japanese Costume 1700-1926." Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1987.
"The New Encyclopaedia Britannica in 30 Volumes," 15th ed., s.v. "Japan, History of." Chicago: Helen Hemingway Benton, 1974.
"The New Encyclopaedia Britannica in 30 Volumes," 15th ed., s.v. "Ashikaga Takauji." Chicago: Helen Hemingway Benton, 1974.
Gunter, Susan. "Japanese Design Motifs and Their Symbolism as used on Itajime-dyed Juban." master\., University of Georgia, 2003.
https://www.fcs.uga.edu/ss/docs/gunter_susan_e_200305_ms.pdf.
