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An amazing Japanese Uchikake(wedding kimono gown) covered with Sagara embroidery front and back, new condition. This is an elegant gown. The colors are not as strong as shown in the photos. Some flowers and "oshidori" birds (known as a pair of love birds), and stylized clouds are traced/enclosed with gold wrapped threads with couching stitches. The other gold is woven into the background satin; a gradual shading of a brownish red color on the edges and orange in the middle. Both colors are a little lighter and gentler as well as the colors of the embroideries. The liner (and bottom padding) is red silk. This gown does not appear to be worn even once. When we acquired this gown, the padding at the bottom was protected with white cotton (sewn to cover the padding). It does not necessarily mean that the gown is a new gown but it shows the way that the gown was handled. Many gowns that we purchased years ago came with the same white cloths and had basting stitches (partially broken). With all the embroideries, it weighs 14
pounds, 52" (sleeve to sleeve) x 76" long, comes in the original paper box (16 1/4" x 25 3/4" x 7").
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