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Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Silk (or Satin?) Brocade
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.202

Italian
Silk Brocade
Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
1955/1.215
A checkered gold brocade foregrounds five fragments of textile: a square in the middle surrounded by four cornerpieces. Each textile has a different design, some with butterflies, birds, and other floral motifs.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
One of Four Panels of Textile Fragments: Brocades in Various Traditional Pattern
1860 – 1926
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.44.9
<p>Plain white Ro nagajuban, wears under&nbsp;sheer formal black funerary (mofuku) Ro kimono<br />
(2.487.1)</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Lined Kimono
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.487.2

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Buddhist Surplice
1950s
Gift of Ulrich and Sarah Straus, in memory of H. Alexander Straus
1998/1.144
Silk brocade. Long oval in shape, with fabric that flaps over to close.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Portable tea ceremony set - tea scoop (chashaku) bag
1850 – 1899
Gift of Ulrich and Sarah Straus
2013/2.82N
Black Chirimen Haori with interwoven wave motifs. &nbsp;Off-white lining with plum floral motifs. (no family crest)
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Haori
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.497
<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
<p>Red Maru (double sided) Obi with interwoven gold and Maroon patterns and motifs.</p>
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.378
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

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Obi
20th century
Gift of Howard and Patricia Yamaguchi
2013/2.382
<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
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