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Japanese Meiji Edo, Japan

Wrapping cloth (fukusa), ca. 1860

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Japanese

Title

Wrapping cloth (fukusa)

Year

ca. 1860

Medium

Silk, paint; plain weave, hand painting, embroidery

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk

Techniques

  • plain weave,
  • embroidery,
  • embroidering,
  • embroidered,
  • painted

Dimensions

Length: 77.5 cm (30 1/2 inches)

Place

Japan

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Gift of Marshall H. Gould

Object Number

46.161

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Nuance in Nature

February 16 - July 8, 2007

Repeated images of the sacred mountain Fuji; the first flowering tree of springtime, the plum blooming in the foreground; and a landscape of pine confirm that this wrapping cloth would have been used during a New Year’s celebration.

Why does the mountain have such design and cultural prominence? Japan’s major religions, Shintō and Buddhism both revere the mountain, a volcano, as representing the forces of creation. The legend of the Shintō deity of Fuji is of a beautiful goddess who brought forth her children through fire without pain and whose name signifies “radiant-blooming-as-the-flowers-of-the-trees, or causing-the-flowers-to-bloom-brightly. The grand peak of Fuji represents the form of the white bud of the Sacred Flower in Buddhism.

Fukusa

June 30 - September 26, 1999

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