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View full screenBlue satin fukusa (gift cover) embroidered in black, grey, white, orange and green silks and gold wrapped thread depicting Sima Guang (J: Shiba Onko) as a boy along with three others saving his friend from drowning in a large jar, with additional decorations of clouds and pine cones: Japan, 19th century
A.1927.167
Japan, East Asia
19th century
Satin, Silk crepe, Gold thread, Silk
Blue satin embroidered in coloured silks and gold thread; mounted on red silk crepe; green silk tassels at corners
Shiba Onko
Akihiko Takemura, Fukusa: Japanese Gift Covers (Iwasaki Bijutsusha, 1991), no. 32
Jane Wilkinson and Nick Pearce, Harmony & Contrast: A Journey through East Asian Art (National Museums of Scotland, 1996), p.39