Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)Discover exquisite embroideries, dyed silk and velvet panels, tapestries, and appliqué works
Sea eagle beneath a pine tree on a rocky seashore
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Description
This textile may have been modelled on a painting. The signature ‘Tsunenobu’ may refer to the painter Kanō Tsunenobu (1636-1713), a nephew of the great master Kano Tanyū (1602-1674). Certainly, the gold background suggests the gold leaf typically used as backgrounds on folding screens or on the wall paintings and sliding screens of temples and grand mansions. As yet we know nothing about the Kyoto embroiderer Okamoto. (Exhibition number 12)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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late 19th century
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Artist/maker
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Okamoto (active late 19th century) (embroiderer)possibly copyist of Kanō Tsunenobu (1636 - 1713) (artist)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed, and embroidered with coloured silk (applied over dyed cotton wadding) and paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core
- Dimensions
- 77 x 114.8 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.4
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 12 p. 105, illus. pp. 22 & 105
Past Exhibition
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Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan
(from 9th Nov 2012 until 27th Jan 2013)
Location
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- returned to owner
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