Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)

Japanese

late 19th to early 20th century · 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. · Robert Lehman Collection

Artist

Japanese

Date

late 19th to early 20th century

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.

Culture

Japanese

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975