Japan

Ôhi (Stole)

late Edo period (1789–1868), 1800/68

Heri, jô: silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; shiten: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip, warp-float faced 2:1 'Z’ twill weave with supplementary patterning weft floats and some supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:2 'Z’ twill interlacings; lining: silk, plain weave

115 × 31.1 cm (45.3 × 12.2 in)