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Woman’s Kimono with Planes and Hinomaru Flags, 黒地絣戦闘機日の丸模様着物, Shōwa period (1926–89), ca. 1940s, Japan, Silk (kasuri) with gold
Woman’s Kimono with Planes and Hinomaru Flags, 黒地絣戦闘機日の丸模様着物, Shōwa period (1926–89), ca. 1940s, Japan, Silk (kasuri) with gold thread, 58 × 47 in. ( × cm), Textiles-Costumes, This luxurious and rare woman’s propaganda kimono appears to have been custom-made by a couture designer for a wealthy patron. The elegant black silk robe has abstract vignettes woven with gold thread and colored yarns (kasuri, an ikat technique that employs a resist-dyeing process on the yarns) of the Hinomaru (Rising Sun) flag of Japan, fighter planes, bombers, the crenellations of the Great Wall of China, and barbed wire on wood x-frames
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