Description
These lovely hand painted Courtesans are reminiscent of the Heian Era in Japanese History. This is a typical genre scene in that it reveals the hidden everyday lives of these idealized women at leisure. If you look closely, you will notice that their features are flat and highly stylized. The hand painting has been accomplished through the ārice paste resistā process, and not from dip dying, which is a highly labor intensive method of painting on silk. This process requires a tedious series of painting out with the rice paste the areas that are to be painted in later with each of the various colors.
The colors used were from natural dyes. This alone would indicate that this silk fragment came from the garment of a wealthy man of high status. Additional evidence, however, lies in the nature of the hand woven background silk. It is very fine and painstakingly demonstrates the subtlety of Japanese patterning in the delicacy of its very neutral, yet masculine, stripes.
A Certificate of Authenticity is included.
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