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Woman’s Kimono Scarf or Sash (obiage)

2009

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Woman’s Kimono Scarf or Sash (obiage)

2009

Physical Qualities Silk, 71 3/4 × 12 3/8 in. (182.2 × 31.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Charles W. Newhall III, Baltimore
Object Number 2014.81.1d
A woman's kimono scarf or sash (obiage) made of gold silk with woven patterns and additional white and green patterning added via dyeing/printing. Japanese characters are woven into the fabric near the ends where the multicolored pattern stops.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2014; Charles Newhall, Baltimore by purchase, Tokyo, Japan
Annie Van Assche (ed.), "Fashioning Kimono: Dress and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Japan," The Montgomery Collection, published in conjuntion with the exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 13 October 2005-1 May 2006, Milan, Italy: 5 Continents, 2005.

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.

Inscribed: Woven inscription: Yet to be translated

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