Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)

Japanese, late 19th to early 20th century

Artist

Japanese

Date

late 19th to early 20th century

Culture or place

Japanese

Medium

Silk, gold leaf on lacquered paper strip, and gold leaf on lacquered paper-strip-wrapped cotton, warp-float-faced 4/1 satin weave with weft-float-faced 1/2 "z" twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.

Size

Height: 117.5 cm. Width: 200.4 cm.

Type

Textiles-Ecclesiastical

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed