Furisode Kimono with Plum Tree Embroidery

A long-sleeved red silk kimono displays a large plum tree rendered in gold and white embroidery across its body and sleeves. Gilded branches twist upward through the red ground, with blossoms scattered in clusters over the full garment, which hangs flat against a neutral backdrop.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late Edo period (1789–1868), 1801/1868

Medium

Silk, 4:1 satin damask weave (rinzu); embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in satin stitches; laid wo

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2108 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Gaylord Donnelley in memory of Frances Gaylord Smith