藤紫絽地波千鳥模様単衣, Unlined Summer Kimono (Hito-e) with Plovers in Flight over Stylized Waves, Taishō period (1912–26), Japan, Embroidered and resist-dyed silk gauze (ro), H (shoulder to hem) 61 in. (154.9 cm); W (wrist opening to wrist opening) 50 in. (127 cm), Costumes, Unlined, light and airy summer kimonos are often decorated with motifs for their cooling psychological effect. Here, violet and white plovers wheel and dive on a background of abstract peaked shapes that may be meant to represent waves or the drying fishnets found along the shores where plovers were plentiful
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藤紫絽地波千鳥模様単衣, Unlined Summer Kimono, Hito-e, Plovers, Flight, Stylized Waves, Taishō period, 1912–26, Japan, Embroidered, resist-dyed silk gauze, ro, H, shoulder, hem, 61, 154.9 cm, W, wrist opening, 50, 127, Costumes, Unlined, light, airy summer kimonos, decorated, motifs, cooling psychological, effect, violet, white plovers, wheel, dive, background, abstract peaked, shapes, meant, represent waves, drying fishnets, shores, plovers, plentiful
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