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Vintage Woman's Kimono, Murayama Oshima Kasuri Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1950 item# 513900
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This woman's kimono has a kasuri tie-dyed design of squares and circles. It is made of a nubby handspun, natural/plant-dyed raw silk (tsumugi); done in the Murayama Oshima tsumugi style. The sleeves are elegantly long (25.5 inches!). The lining is made of an undyed, nubby handspun silk (upper) and a crepe silk (lower) that was recycled from a tomesode kimono--the black ground dye and colored yuzen-dyed areas have been bleached, leaving a pinkish color. The yuzen design appears in silhouette. ...click for details

Vintage Woman's Kimono, Brown Kasuri, Tsumugi Silk Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1950 item# 513881
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This woman's kimono has a kasuri tie-dyed design of crossed arrow feathers (yabane). It is made of a nubby handspun, natural/plant-dyed silk; done in the Murayama Oshima tsumugi style. The sleeves are elegantly long (26 inches!). The lining is made of cotton (upper) and silk (lower). In excellent condition. Only very slight areas of discoloration (front lower panel). No other damage. Clean throughout. ...click for details

Vintage Man's Kimono Haori, Ise Shrine Brocade Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1950 item# 513865
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This is a man's formal (5-crested) silk kimono jacket (haori), made of high-quality satin silk (habutae). It has a spectacular image of Japan's most sacred Shinto shrine, Ise, which is set in a book-shaped cartouche. The image of Ise, set on the shrine compound, is finely brocade woven with silk and metallic threads. Very realistically done in a "romantic" style that was popular in the first half of the 20th century. ...click for details

Boy's Kimono, Blue Kasuri Silk, Padded, Taisho-Showa Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1920 item# 513840
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This is a charming young boy's silk padded kimono--the type worn everyday in the early 20th century. It has a kasuri tie-dyed, vertical stripe pattern (warp ikat) in soft indigo blue, brown, and undyed white. Made of a smooth tsumugi raw silk fabric and dyed with plants/natural materials. The blue was likely obtained from plant indigo, while the brown could have been obtained from a variety of plant materials. The lining is made of a super-nubby handspun raw silk. ...click for details

Man's Kimono Haori (Jacket), Fab Hotei Painting Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1950 item# 513738
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This man's kimono jacket (haori) has on its lining a handpainted ink wash (sumi-e) painting of Hotei, characteristically depicted as a pot-bellied, eccentric, Zen monk dressed in a tattered robe. Hotei is believed to be the historical 6th-century Chinese itinerant monk, Pu Tai Ho Shang. In Japan, Hotei is revered as a Zen patron saint--in spite of having neither property, home, or family, he is always cheerful and helps others wherever he goes. Thus, he is thought to exemplify the Zen ideal ...click for details

Japanese Kimono Obi, Stencil-Dyed Tsumugi Silk Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1960 item# 511185
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This is a lovely Japanese kimono obi (Nagoya-style) with a roundel design done via the rice paste-resist stenciling technique (katazome). It is made of a thick, nubby, handspun silk fabric--first dyed a soft beige-yellow, then the design was stencil-dyed over this. The multi-colored dyes (vermillion red, violet purple, ocher yellow-gold, and indigo blue--were applied by hand in a style that recalls Okinawan stencil-dyeing; a second color--for shading--was applied to some of the roundels. There a ...click for details

Japanese Kihachijo Yellow Kimono, Mid-Showa Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1960 item# 511174
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This kimono is made of a special type of silk called "kihachijo" --the "ki" means yellow, and hachijo (-jima) refers to the island in which this specialized silk fabric is made. Hachijo-jima is a small island 290 kilometers from Tokyo, out in the Pacific (part of Izu island chain). For approx. 800 years, the residents of this island have been producing silk (since the Heian period!). The distinctiv ...click for details

Antique Japanese Stencil, CHERRIES & PINE Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Folk Art: Pre 1900 item# 506842
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This antique Japanese paper stencil has a wonderful design of cherry blossoms and pine boughs. It is made of several layers of laminated handmade kozo (mulberry) paper (very strong!), then treated with persimmon paste, and finally smoked to render it waterproof and tough. Then the intricate design is cut into the paper by a master cutter-artisan. This stencil was used for traditional Japanese rice paste-resist stencil ...click for details

Antique Japanese Stencil, LOTS OF CHERRY BLOSSOMS Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1900 item# 506838
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This antique Japanese paper stencil has a wonderful design of scattered cherry blossoms. It is made of several layers of laminated handmade kozo (mulberry) paper (very strong!), then treated with persimmon paste, and finally smoked to render it waterproof and tough. Then the intricate design is cut into the paper by a master cutter-artisan. This stencil was used for traditional Japanese rice paste-resist stencil dyeing ...click for details

Vintage Japanese Kimono, Shibori, IVY LEAVES Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Folk Art: Pre 1940 item# 506576
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This is a very special raspberry red silk kimono made with handspun silk that was shibori tie-dyed (hand-tied). It has a design of ivy leaves with a somewhat random, all-over crackled ground motif. Three different shibori tie-dye techniques were used: (1)the ground was done with "resist-wrapped spider-web" (kantera-maki kumo shibori); (2) the ivy leaf outline was done with stitching (ori-nui); (3) and the v ...click for details

Vintage Japanese Kimono Haori, AMATERASU GODDESS Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1950 item# 506567
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This is a man's formal (5-crested) silk kimono jacket (haori), made of high-quality satin silk (habutae). Tt has a spectacular image of the ancient Japanese tale "ama no iwaya" on its lining. The heroine of the tale is Amaterasu no Omikami, Japan's most famous Shinto goddess. The tale goes like this: Disgruntled about the poor behavior of her younger brother, Amaterasu entered a cave, thus leaving the universe in complete darkness (Amaterasu is the Sun Goddess). She vowed to ne ...click for details

Antique Japanese Kimono, Girl's, Blue Butterflies Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1920 item# 495376
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This is a very special, formal, antique Japanese kimono made for a young girl. It was made of a fine satin silk, and dyed a wonderful periwinkle blue ground color (the same blue as that used for Edo kosode; obtained from a natural dye). The butterfly and phoenix design (w/a tatewaku opposing line motif) was done with the rice paste resist yuzen technique, executed in a somewhat folk-art like manner (as in tsutsugaki rice past resist). Very charming! ...click for details

Vintage Japanese Kimono Haori, Urushi Thread Brocade Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1970 item# 495365
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This Japanese kimono haori is made of a brocade-woven design that was done with polychrome lacquered threads (called "rama-ire") and metallic couched gold and silver threads. This style of haori was especially popular in the 1950s-60s; here is an extraordinary example. It has one crest, indicating that it was worn for semi-formal occasions. In excellent condition. No damage. ...click for details

Vintage Japanese Kimono, Daffodils/Fans, Taisho Modo Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1940 item# 495354
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This is a 1920s-30s Japanese kimono made of a stiff crepe-like silk (omeshi?). It has a wonderful Western-inspired "modern" design of daffodils and a Japanese-inspired design of fans. A wonderful example of a fashionable, casual, pre-war kimono, the type worn by urban-dwelling young women of the Taisho era. The design was applied with stencils to the warp and weft threads prior to weaving (same technique as "meisen" kimono, but not made with taffeta-like meisen silk). Lined i ...click for details

Magnificent Japanese Tomesode Kimono, Views of Kyoto Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1950 item# 493433
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This is a very special formal tomesode kimono decorated with various famous views of Kyoto, all beautifully handpainted in the rice-paste resist "yuzen" technique. Depicted is the Golden Pavilion, Kiyomizu-dera, Toji Temple's four-storey pagoda, Higashiyama, etc.--all iconic sites from Japan's cultural capital. The colors are all subdued, leading me to believe that all was done with natural pigment/plant dyes (not w/chemicals). Gold and silver paint is generously applied throug ...click for details

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