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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 19th century
Pattern side: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk; slit tapestry weave (tsuzure); corners: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquer-paper-strip wrapped cotton, tubular 1:1 oblique interlacing over cotton core, knotted; silk-wrapped cotton ball and re-plied silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton fringe tassels
75.6 × 66.7 cm (29.8 × 26.3 in)

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