#meiji era

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Sashiko Jacket

1850-1899 (Meiji Era)

Japan

Sashiko is a quilting technique that uses a running stitch to reinforce and prolong the life of a textile or to join together recycled pieces of cloth into a new garment. Japanese farmers used the technique to create warmer and more durable fabrics, and decorative sashiko stitching developed from this practical function. This robe’s embroidered design is dominated by three variations on the pattern of interlocking circles, called shippō-tsunagi. The bottom band features a design of waves.

The MET (Accession Number: 67.172.1)

[jareckiworld]

Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) Morning Glories on Bamboo Stakes (woodblock, 1879)

[lionofchaeronea]

Crow and Willow Tree, Kawanabe Kyosai, 1887

[geritsel]

Uehara Konen - Three wintery landscapes, color woodblock prints, c.1910-1920.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Two Crows on Plum Branch by Kawanabe Kyosai (1885)

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Kajita Hanko, Musashi Plain (Musashino), from the series Tales of Ise Publisher: Shun'yôdô Tokyo Printing Company, Late Meiji era 1903

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Watanabe Shōtei

Seagulls Over the Waves

Meiji era (1868-1912)

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Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915) ~ Cat catching a rat, 1877 (1st edition). Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper | src MFA Boston

Detail from a print dated 1920s | src MIA Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Ohara Koson 小原古邨 [1877-1945]

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Ambrotype of two handsome men in kimonos, dated on back Meiji 16 (1883)

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An early example of Irezumi tattoos, 1870s

[fashionsfromhistory]

Unlined Summer Kimono

c.1876

A pond with carp and water lilies adorns the lower part of this kimono, and morning glories bloom at the shoulders. This early summer scene is resist dyed and painted on a blue-and-white ground of high-quality silk gauze (ro), subtly patterned in the weave with goldfish in water. The donor’s grandmother, one of four generations of female textile artists, wore this summer kimono during her thirteenth year, around 1876, for her jūsan-mairi (literally, “thirteenth temple visit”) to Arashiyama Hōrinji, a temple in Saga, Kyoto, to receive blessings as she entered adolescence. The kimono has three family crests: one on the center of the back and one on each sleeve.

The MET (Accession Number: 2006.73.2)

[jareckiworld]

Sakai Dōitsu (1845-1913) — Mount Horai [hanging scroll; ink, colours, gold, on silk, ca. 1889]

[lionofchaeronea]

Crow and Reeds by a Stream, Kawanabe Kyōsai, ca. 1887

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Kiyochika Kobayashi - Rest House under the Moonlight at Imadobashi, color woodblock print, c. 1877.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Fireflies at Kinu River in Tennoji by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1880)