Kimono with Pines and Mist
With its stylized, colorful pine trees and gold mist set against a black ground, this kimono demonstrates the legacy and enduring popularity of designs by Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716). Kōrin came from a family of textile artisans and merchants, whose shop, the Kariganeya, was one of the most well-known businesses in Kyoto. His hand-painted garments gained fame in the city during his lifetime, and in the eighteenth century his characteristic, graphic patterns were included in woodblock-printed pattern books and became known as “Kōrin patterns” (Kōrin moyō). The fashion for these decorative motifs—as well as for the so-called Rinpa style they helped inspire—endured well into the twentieth century. Modern formal kimonos like this one are often black but embellished with brightly colored patterns positioned below the waist and concentrated on the front, leaving much of the back undecorated.
Artwork Details
- 黒縮緬地松霞模様着物
- Title: Kimono with Pines and Mist
- Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
- Date: second quarter 20th century
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Plain-weave crepe silk with paste-resist dying (yūzen) and application of gold
- Dimensions: Overall: 70 × 48 in. (177.8 × 121.9 cm)
- Classification: Costumes
- Credit Line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in memory of Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, 2013
- Object Number: 2013.510.6
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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