Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)

Japanese

Medium: Silk, gold leaf on lacquered paper strip, and gold leaf on lacquered paper-strip-wrapped cotton, warp-float-faced 4/1 satin weave with weft-float-faced 1/2 "z" twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.
Dimensions: Height: 117.5 cm. Width: 200.4 cm.
Culture: Japanese
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Classification: Textiles-Ecclesiastical
Dated: late 19th to early 20th century
Pixels: 1159 × 1963
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Japanese. Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe), late 19th to early 20th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.