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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1912
Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper- strip wrapped silk, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure); Patterned side: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, slit and single dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure; corner; gold-metallized probably polyester-film wrapped rayon, oblique interlacing; knotted and re-plied fringe tassels
72.1 × 70 cm (28.4 × 27.6 in)

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