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
Greater spotted woodpecker in a forest by moonlight
- loan
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Description
The composition of this design, with the straight cropped tree trunks on the right and a sapling in the foreground, displays the strong influence of Nihonga ‘Japanese style’ painting, in particular a screen painting by Hishida Shunsō from 1909, entitled Fallen Leaves (Ochiba). Highly sophisticated use of different colour threads, all extremely fine, is made to give a sense of depth and perspective. (Exhibition number 15)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Japan › Honshū › Kyōto prefecture › Kyoto (probable place of creation)Europe (original location)
- Date
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c. 1910
Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed brown, and embroidered with coloured silk, with painting in silver; silk border, dyed gold
- Dimensions
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frame 93.9 x 58.5 x 3.7 cm (height x width x depth)
textile 73 x 37.5 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
- Accession no.
- LI1956.19
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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. 15 p. 108, illus. p. 108
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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