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The design for this panel and its pair [LI1956.16.b] was probably provided by the Kyoto painter Takeuchi Seihō, who worked as a designer for the silk manufacturer Iida Shinshichi (Takashimaya). In 1897 Seihō exhibited a hanging scroll of a dancing skeleton that was extremely similar to one of these panels [LI1956.b]. Some thread has been lost here, revealing the gofun shell powder design traced onto the silk ground beneath. (Exhibition number 38)
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. 38 pp. 157-158, illus. pp. 157 & 159
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