Collection place: Honshū, Japan / Function: 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collection place Honshū, Japan Function 5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)

Hearst Museum object titled Back cushion, bandori, accession number 9-23023, described as Traditional Japanese bandori intricately woven from linden bast ("shina"), sedge ("suge"), wild grapevine bark ("budo"), and cotton rags. The two shoulder straps are made of braided sedge interwoven with strips of black and maroon cotton rag. The straps are spaced barely 1.5" apart; at ends of straps, braid tapers into sedge cords attached at either side of cushion to loops made of wild grapevine bark. Cushion where it rests against back is U-shaped with vertical central opening; this inside layer of cushion is made from strands of rice straw lying taut side-by-side in a radial pattern. At the edge these strands continue into a single-plaited seam, with two thinner, parallel seams of grapevine bark. A net made from grapevine bark lies flat against the outside or "front" of the cushion and covers the central opening; a horizontal strap runs the entire width of the cushion, made of disparate strips of wild grapevine bark pushed through a central vertical loop. length - 27.5", width - 9.75", thickness - 2.5

Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-15508, described as Mounted Fragments. Silk? Twill weave, warp patterned. Green, beige, brown, and green beige. From the Shosoin. Mr. Yamanobe is the technical expert in textiles at the National Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo. Glass slide 3¼ inches by 4 inches.