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Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)
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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., Japanese
Rights: Public Domain
Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Robert Lehman Collection 1975
Title: Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)
Description:
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.
, Japanese.
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