Light blue-ground festival kimono decorated with three oak leaves (mitsu-gashiwa) crests, late 19th-early 20th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Cloth: cotton; tsutsugaki (freehand resist)expand_more
The John R. Van Derlip Fund and the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation; purchase from the Thomas Murray Collectionexpand_more 2019.20.81
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Dyed an overall shade of light blue, this kimono is decorated with a crest known as mitsu Kashiwa, or three oak leaves, a stylized depiction of a Daimyo oak tree’s leaves, which grow in clusters. Several famous families in Japan’s history used this crest, and the number of veins can vary in each leaf depending on the family. An example of the freehand resist-dyeing technique (tsutsugaki), in which starch paste is applied to the textile from one end of a tube, the crest appears in multiple places on this single garment: in indigo blue on the upper left, in gray on the lower right of the back, and in indigo blue on the lower right of the front.
Details
- Title
- Light blue-ground festival kimono decorated with three oak leaves (mitsu-gashiwa) crests
- Role
- Maker
- Accession Number
- 2019.20.81
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murray et al. 2018, pl. 72
- Curator Approved
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