Advanced Search

K-12 Educator
K-12 Student
Museum Visitor
UMMA Docent
UMMA Staff
University Faculty
University Student
Between and Mortarboard

UMMA Object Specific Fields




Query builder

How to Use the Query Builder

21 UMMA Objects
Sort by

<p>Silk Turquoise fukuro (single sided) obi made of light material containing thin silver stripes and interwoven silver and floral brocades.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.371
Black with matte black circle and scroll design. Water crests are of many types, designs based on flowing water, water in ponds, or other inspirations. The flowing water motif, with its distinctive S sharped formned by the parallel lines, can be found in Yayoi period artifacts. &nbsp;This particular water crests called &quot;Kanze Whirlpools&quot;. &nbsp;The Kanze family, head of one of the schools of Noh, used this design of a whirlpool of water as the ritual motif for the head of the Kanze school
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.379
<p>Black Nagoya obi with interwoven white, gold and red square diamonds.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.383
<p>Off-white beige and gold speckled fukuro (single-sided) obi with gold side threads with interwoven gold matsukawa bishi (interlocking geometric pine river) motif patterning.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.40
<p>white, gold-speckled, and orange fukuro (singe-sided) obi with interwoven white interlocking circle motifs and dyed various geometric floral and foliage motif patterning within Tsugi gami motifs (ripped paper collage.)&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.63
<p>textured gold and pale green fukuro (single-sided) obi with embroidered camouflage-dyed paper-like material within a triangular grid and gold modified sauvastika (reverse swastika) motif patterning called &ldquo;sayagata&rdquo; in Japanese embroidered within patched gold-embroidered floral foliage motifs.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.64
<p>Dark orange fukuro (single-sided) Obi with brocading of green, aqua, and silver, gold bird and butterfly and pink peonies and chrysanthemums arranged in a wreath shape. There may be a signature of the artist interwoven in gold on one of the ends in old Chinese characters.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.26
7-sided frame made of reclaimed wood moulding and slats nailed together and backed with strips of green felt, possibly from a pool table. Gold wire traces the wood frame, and is accented with a fuzz ball or googly eye at each corner. A toy car is placed on the gold wire &ldquo;track&rdquo; at bottom center; car racing flag stickers attached to the frame in a couple places. Three pieces of thread are strung horizontally across the frame, a &ldquo;spider web&rdquo; attached to top two lines with puffy paint. A wood (?) cutout of a smiling joker mouth hung from web by wire.
Martin Johnson
Do yu Get it
1996
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
2008/2.235
<p>Pale pink Fukuro (single sided) obi with interwoven silver and gold floral brocade in interwoven rhombi of green, coral, and red.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.375
Silver fabric with bronze stripe along the sides and bronze straps.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Zori
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.426A&B
<p>Dark cyan fukuro (single-sided) Sha obi with interwoven gold and silver (floral/foliage?) motif patterning.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
1925 – 1999
Gift of Mrs. Kazuko Miyake
2016/2.55
<p>Pink-beige and gold obi with gold brocade and patched floral and butterfly motifs</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.386
Loading…