Fukusa (Gift Cover), Mid–Meiji period (1868–1912), c. 1895, Japan, Patterned side: silk, plain weave (shioze), dye extracted though a discharge dyeing technique and chemical dye stripper (bassen) and painted with India ink (sumi), embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-on-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, laidwork and couching, lined with silk, ink and stamped with ink, sewn with front and lining matched in size (Tachikiri awase), silk, running controlling stitches along all edges, corners: gold-leaf-over-lacquered-, x cm (30 1/4 x 26 in.), Reimagined by Gibon, design of warm cheerful

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