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Antique Japanese Wedding Gown, Peacocks and Peonies browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art: Pre 1920: item # 616861
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Purple silk Japanse Uchikake (wedding gown) with a pair of peacocks and tree peonies, lined with red "beni" (traditional red dye made from beni flowers)soft silk. Kyoto Yuzen zome(dye)* accented with embroideries and couching stitches. The size of older gown as this is much shorter than the newer gowns that we see today. This would make a better decoration piece. Excellent condition. Circa Meiji. Dimensions: 49" W x 59" L, sleeves 24 3/4" L *When the peaceful life of Edo (1600-1868) continued without any major battles for years, the people's life in general became more affluent. The merchant's economic power became strong and there were some very wealthy merchants (goh shoh) in the later half of the Edo period. The Tokugawa government issued sumptuary laws one after the other to put a stop to the extravagant lifestyle of the merchant class who were socially inferior, ranked at the bottom; Samurai at the top, farmers, artisans and merchants followed after. The reform laws limited the use of gold and silver threads, even the intricacy of embroideries and weavings. This stimulated the culture on the contrary by forcing the merchants to look for the alternatives. It is said that the weavers from Kyoto commissioned a popular fan painter, Miyazaki Yuzensai, to paint on silk to cope with the changes. The color bleeds on the silk. Until then, the dyeing method was very limited to simpler techniques. Yuzen perfected the paintings on silk fabric by using the paste-resist method. By outlining or covering the design areas with the paste, the artists (some were famous painters in general) could work freely with the design ever in detail. This was a revolution in Japanese textiles history. |
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