Textile ArtsJapanese

K'o San Panel

Classification

Textile Arts

Culture

Japanese

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

Textile Arts

Buddhist Priest's Robe (Kesa)

Unknown Artist

The support medium is twill. The technique is brocade. The shape/form is "kesa

Silk

Robe with "Bingata" (paste-resist) Decoration of Phoenixes and Clouds on a White Ground

Unknown Artist, late 18th to early 19th century

Ramie with vegetable dyes and mineral pigments; stenciled and free-hand paste-resist decoration applied on both sides of fabric

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Linen

Buddhist Priest's Robe (Kesa) with Decoration of Phoenixes (Hō-ō) and Flowers amid Clouds

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Pale green-blue silk with cloud motifs painted in gold pigment; additional motifs embroidered in polychrome silk and gold threads

18th centuryJapanese

Textile Arts

Fragment of Striped Brocade

Unknown Artist

Japanese

Textile Arts

Buddhist Priest's Robe (Kesa) with Diaper Pattern

Unknown Artist, 18th century

18th centuryJapanese

Textile Arts

Sutra Wrapper (Chitsu), from a set originally commissioned for the Kyoto temple Jingo-ji

Unknown Artist, Late Heian period, first half 12th century

Slender strips of black bamboo, partially interwoven with dyed-silk threads and backed with mica-coated paper, surrounded by silk brocade with gilt bronze fittings and dyed-silk braid