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Japanese Wedding Kimono, Amazing Embroidery browse these categories for related items... All Items: Japanese: Textiles: Kimono: Pre 1980: item #816834
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An amazing Japanese Uchikake (wedding kimono gown) covered with Sagara embroidery on the front and back, new condition. This is a gorgeous gown. The theme of this gown is probably from “The Tale of Genji”. There is a scene in the “Wakamurasaki” chapter when Genji, traveling the countryside for the first time, sees a beautiful young girl crying. She was crying because the birds that she kept inside of her basket had escaped. The girl, Wakamurasaki (Young Ms. Purple), shortly after became the life time partner (most of the time) to Genji.
Here on this gown, there are baskets turned upside down in a flower field. These baskets were used indoors during the Heian Period (794-1185) to give a nice fragrance to their clothing that was placed over the basket with incense burning inside. Many beautiful poems were read and exchanged during the period of the aristocrats. The colors are not as strong as shown in the photos and it depends on the light that the gown would be exposed to. 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 dark brownish orange color on the edges, and orange in the middle. The colors of the embroideries are a little lighter and gentler as well as. 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"). This is the only gown that came with an original box up until now. |
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