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A Meiji Era Pieced Festival Kimono browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Textiles: Pre 1920: Item # 349604
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| Meiji Era, (1868-1912) 60"/ 152.5 cm high x 50"/127 cm wide. This dazzlingly beautiful kimono is made of fragments of silk kimono and juban, presumably from cast off garments of departed family members for the purpose of celebrating the festival of O-bon or 'Festival for the Dead'. O-bon is one of Japan's most celebrated national holidays; it is believed that during this period the souls of family ancestors return to the earth to visit their living relatives. The week before the O-bon period, housewives thoroughly clean their homes in preparation to welcome the spirits; families visit the burial places of their relatives, pray for their souls and offer them food. This artfully constructed kimono shows a beautiful range of late nineteenth century silks, including gromwell-dyed shibori fragments, and safflower dyed orange silks, the interior being wholly safflower-dyed silk. There is some staining and wear to some of the fragments and the interior, but close inspection shows that these fabrics were as such when the garment was created. The original hemp or ramie basting stitches are still intact. | ||||||||||||
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