Kosode Fragment

The lively kosode from which this textile came had a vivid pattern of a clematis vine growing on a curving bamboo fence. Some of the embroidery is now missing from the leaves and one of the flowers, allowing a view of notations in ink: the syllable ki, seen in the leaves, and aka (red) in the center of a clematis flower, instructed the embroiderer to use gold thread (kinshi) for the leaves and red for the flower.

Credit: Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000 Benefit Fund, and funds from various donors, 2001