Plate 22.

Green silk brocade, part of a “No” dancer’s robe, woven in purple and gilt paper strips.Birds in flight, snow on bamboos and wisteria stems.

XV111 Century.

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Dark blue silk, flying sparrows in brown and gilt, bamboo stems and foliage in white.

JAPANESE BROCADES. Early XIX Century.