Japanese Wedding Gown, Ancient Imperial Carts, Flowers

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1980: item #615701

Japanese Uchikake (wedding gown) with Imperial Carts, flowers and gold color “maku” (outside cloth divider). The divider is used as a street on this gown leading the wagons to the large area at the bottom half. The background colors from the top are orange, light pink to dark gray at the bottom. The liner is red. The condition is excellent, like new.
53" W x 75 1/2" L (sleeve length 41")

Japanese Wedding Gown, Flowers Cranes Embroidery

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1960: item #615576

Japanese silk wedding gown with beautiful embroideries of flowers, cranes and the imperial carts. The fabric of this gown has silver pine branches woven in entirely. Some silver branches almost has the look of the embroidery. This background gave the texture to the gown and a totally embroidered look (much more than shown in the photos). The color changed to a creamy tan color (this also did not show up in the photos) with small areas (collar, front area) changing to a little darker color ... Click for details

Japanese silk crepe fukusa, circa 1930

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #615205
3462

A Japanese silk crepe kake fukusa or gift cover, with painted, resist dyed and embroidered design, circa 1930. A drunken shojo dances with a giant sake cup and dipper in front of a wine jar, while a seated shojo claps and sings, all by a lake shore. The cream silk has been tinted gray and blue, the figures, reeds and wine jar have small bits of gold thread embroidery as accents. The obverse is orange silk crepe. Measurements are 29.75 X 25.75 inches or 75.5cm X 66cm. Condition is good, but... Click for details

Large Japanese embroidered kake fukusa, circa 1930

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #615190
363

A Japanese gift cover or kake fukusa, heavy cream silk and gold thread, embroidered with cranes and pines, circa 1930. The cranes rock details and young pines have satin stitch and the water and clouds are couched metal thread. The dark green back has a couched gold thread crest. Measurements are 27.5 X 24.75 inches or 69.8cm X 62.8cm. There are no losses, stains, fading or tears.

Japanese small silk fukusa

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1950: item #615178
227

A Japanese cream silk small fukusa, or gift cover, circa 1930-1950. Resist and painted with a boy dressed as a Shinto priest, it also is subtly shaded with peach tones around the young pines and the boy. It measures 14.5 X 13.5 inches or 37cm X 34cm. The back has a paulownia or kiri crest. There are no tears, fading or losses. There is a small 1cm mark just below the clouds, visible in the first image.

A Boldly Patched Boro Cotton Work Kimono

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #613651

ca. 1925-30 45 1/2" x 45 1/2", 115.5 cm x 115.5 cm This cotton work coat is hand sewn from large fragments of cloth. The interior, visually more interesting than the exterior, is made of hand loomed, safflower-dyed cloth on the shoulders and arms. The rest of the interior is fashioned of large pieces of fabric (mostly machine loomed) sewn in great, bold applications allover. The result is very graphic. The exterior of the garment is of an indigo dyed katazome (stencil dyed resist) cotton fab... Click for details

Child's Painted *SOLD Silk Kimono for Portrait Sitting

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #610030
419-6H-134

Fine painted silk and gold leaf make an extraordinary child's kimono. This kimono has a full silk lining and the sleeves are double-lined, making it seem almost padded. It was for a portrait and displays the family crest, or mon, as well as many cranes and a ceremonial figure (also wearing a kimono with cranes) under a pine bough.
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A Small Katagami: Diamonds

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #609676

probably early Twentieth century 8 1/2" x 5", 21.5 cm x 12.5 cm This wonderful katagami is a stencil used for katazome dyeing and is expertly hand cut from mulberry paper saturated with green persimmon tannin or kaki-shibu.

A Small Katagami: Asa-no-ha (Hemp Leaf Motif)

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1940: item #609673

probably early Twentieth century 8 1/2" x 5", 21.5 cm x 12.5 cm This unused katagami, or stencil used in katazome printing, is hand cut with expert precision from mulberry paper saturated with green persimmon tannin or kaki-shibu. Beautifully realized, this stencil shows the classic hemp leaf motif.

A Wa Sarasa Folding Satchel

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles Pre 1930: item #609639

ca. 1920-30 20" x 19" x 12", 51 cm x 48 cm x 30.5 cm Sarasa is the Japanese term for hand-painted, block printed or batik dyed cotton cloth, most of which was export cotton originating in India. Sarasa was a fad among the wealthy during the Edo period and its popularity has sustained itself into the Twentieth century. Wa-sarasa is a Japanese iteration of imported sarasa. This printed cotton cloth shows a repeat pattern of masks. This wonderful bag is lined in pale, wide cotton stripes, th... Click for details