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Fukusa (Gift Cover)

Taishô period (1912–1926), c. 1912
Woven in one piece (hikikaeshi); Mon side: silk, slit and single interlocking weave (tsuzure); Decorative side: silk and gold-leaf-over lacquered-paper-strip wrapped silk, slit an dovetailed tapestry weave (tsuzure)
72 × 67.1 cm (28.3 × 26.4 in)

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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · as of July 2026

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