Japan

Ôhi (Stole)

late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 1850/90

Heri, yô, and jô: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lining: cotton, mixed twill weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats

139 × 298 cm (54.7 × 117.3 in)