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Meisen Kimono with Thunderbolts
Not on view
The dazzling pattern of thunderbolts, rendered as white and black lines on a red ground, was made with the stenciled double-ikat technique. The wefts were dyed with three stencils and the warps with two. The dyer used a four-sided block instead of a flat board to dye the wefts, creating a sophisticated, gradated kasuri (ikat) effect. This lively composition was created in Isesaki, Gunma prefecture, and represents postwar fashion for meisen.
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