Fukusa

Description

Silk fukusa (gift cover) with a design in Yuzen resist dyeing and embroidery of two puppies beneath bamboo and holly in the snow, design is largely monochrome with gold embroidery embellishing the bamboo stem and leaves, berries in orange silk and gold mica applied on background, backed with orange-red silk with a roundel of an embroidered deer and bat: Japan, 1868-1900

Museum reference

A.1927.166

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Fukusa, Gift cover

Production information

Japan, East Asia

Date

Late 19th century

Style / Culture

Meiji period, Japanese

Materials

Silk, Gold thread, Silk, Mica

Physical description

White silk

References

Reproduced in Akihiko Takemura, Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers (Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1991), no. 106

Reproduced in Fukai Akiko 深井晃子, et al., Yoroppa ni nemuru 'kimono' ヨーロッパに眠る「きもの」 (Tokyo Bijutsu, 2017), p. 59