Robe, woman's

Description

Woman's outer robe (uchikake) of white damask silk dyed and embroidered with thunder pattern, branches of cherry blossom, and banana-plant leaf fans, for a samurai-class woman: Japan, late 18th-early 19th century

Museum reference

A.1177.2

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Robe, woman's

Production information

Japan, East Asia

Date

1775 - 1825

Materials

Damask

Physical description

Damask silk embroidered and printed

References

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. 56.