Vintage Japanese Silk Kimono Allover Garden Landscape Teien Crane Pine Teal Showa Coins & Money ISBN-13: 978-0824816124 (hardcover) / 978-0824816148

ISBN-13: 978-0824816124 (hardcover) / 978-0824816148 (softcover)

Decoration: Allover komon (小紋) repeat: shippo-tsunagi (七宝繋ぎ) interlocking circle framework with stylized floral rosettes in orange-red

The form is shallow and wide

creating a strong visual contrast with the open central well

and applied gold plover sea birds

Vintage Japanese Silk Kimono Allover Garden Landscape Teien Crane Pine Teal Showa Coins & Money ISBN-13: 978-0824816124 (hardcover) / 978-0824816148Vintage Japanese silk kimono, allover teien garden landscape with crane, pine, bridge, plum and stream in white on deep teal ground, grey blue hakkake lining, Showa era Japan; Showa era, mid 20th century, c. 1950s1970s A visually abundant vintage Japanese silk kimono in deep teal green (, rokush iro), the entire surface covered in a continuous allover teien zu () garden landscape composition rendered in white and soft silver grey resist dyeing against