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Garments hung on screens
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Garments hung on screens

first half 17th century · Gold and color on paper

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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This pair of six-panel folding screens depicts assorted women's garments draped over two folding screens. The stylish kosode, forerunners of the kimono, were sewn from black silk with stenciled gold-leaf decoration. Red silk linings show at the robes' edges.

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Credit lineGarments hung on screens. first half 17th century. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
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