Kesa, late Edo period (1789–1868)/ Meiji period (1868–1912), 1850/90, Japan, Heri, yô, and jô: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts, shiten and niten: silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered paper strip, twill weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts, cords: silk, twill oblique interlacing, lining: cotton, weft-faced mixed twill weave self-patterned by main warp and ground weft floats, x cm (44 15/16 x 76 1/8 in.),

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