Japan

Short Coat

1801/50
Wool, plain weave, fulled (gorofukuren); appliquéd with silk, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming solid velvet; embroidered with silk, gilt-strip-wrapped-silk; silk and gilt-paper-strip, twill weave with secondary binding warp and patterning weft; lined with silk, plain weave; edged with silk and gilt-paper-strip, twill weave with secondary binding warps and patterning wefts
125 × 124.1 cm (49.2 × 48.9 in)

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