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.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Nara Prefecture, Kansai, Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
5.0 Use not specified (Ritual, Pageantry, and Recreation)