A fragment of a yutan (furniture cover), the brocade with orange brown ground showing the design in rows of five-clawed dragons alternating with clouds. Woven in polychrome silk and silvered strips of paper. With applied Japanese family crest roundel of triple hollyhock, worked in silk with couched gold threads. With undyed linen lining and the longside with loops. Condition: the crest with missing application (circle), three larger and some small holes, partially little wear and fading. Dimensi ...click for details
Two paintings on velvet, the fabric partially cut and painted with ink and colors. One with the depiction of the floating torii at Itsukushima shrine, the second one with a village at the foot of Mount Fuji. Condition: slightly faded, stained, few areas with wear, four small splits, one with two tiny holes. Dimension with border: 58 cm x 56 cm.
A Buddhist temple canopy consisting of three panels of silk brocade. Orange brown ground with design in rows, ho-o birds alternating with leaves. Woven in polychrome silk and silvered stripes of paper "gin hirahaku". The cotton lining dated and inscribed in ink. Condition: one loss and few small holes, one corner mended, lining stained, little faded and worn. Dimension: 168 cm x 168 cm.
An undone obi with beautiful design of polychrome fans decorated with mandarin ducks, flowers and pine trees. Intermediate flying hoo birds in gold thread. Condition: Undone, middle pleat, traces of usage at the border. Dimension: 410 cm x 68,5 cm.
