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Shōsōin fragment

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Silk tabby, Nara period (710–794), Japan
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Seymour Fund 1965
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Title: Shōsōin fragment
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Silk tabby, Nara period (710–794), Japan.

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