Surcoat (Jinbaori), Edo period (1615–1868), 17th century, Japan, Body: China, for the European market, late 16th–17th century

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Surcoat (Jinbaori), Edo period (1615–1868), 17th century, Japan, Body: China, for the European market, late 16th–17th century; silk velvet, cut and voided, 36 5/8 x 27 1/8 in. ( x cm), Costumes, Samurai jinbaori were frequently made from expensive and flamboyant imported textiles like this Chinese silk velvet, which has a reddish pile pattern on a once vivid yellow background. The European-style “pomegranate” design features bilateral symmetry (mirror-imaged along a vertical axis) and a single direction of orientation

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