黒縮緬地風景二十四李模様打掛, Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Scenes of Filial Piety, Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th–early 19th century, Japan, Resist-dyed and painted silk crepe, embroidered with silk and metallic thread, Overall: 68 3/4 x 49 in. (174.6 x 124.5 cm), Costumes, In the second half of the Edo period, warrior-class women often wore robes with East Asian auspicious, literary, or didactic themes integrated into landscape designs. Embedded in the decoration of this robe—a winter landscape—are visual references to the fundamental Confucian tenet of filial piety, extolled in Japan as firmly as it had been in ancient Chinese society
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黒縮緬地風景二十四李模様打掛, Outer Robe, Uchikake, Scenes, Filial Piety, Edo period, 1615–1868, late 18th–early 19th century, Japan, Resist-dyed, painted silk crepe, embroidered, silk, metallic thread, Overall, 68 3/4 x 49, 174.6 124.5 cm, Costumes, second half, warrior-class women, wore robes, East Asian auspicious, literary, didactic themes, integrated, landscape designs, Embedded, decoration, robe— winter, landscape—, visual, references, fundamental Confucian, tenet, filial piety, extolled, firmly, ancient Chinese, society
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