Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Motif of bats flying in multiple directions cut from brown paper, their wings interlaced to form a continuous pattern. There are faint silk threads visible throughout the negative space to reinforce the overall structure.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Charles W. Gould
- late 18th–early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1939-72-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- textile designs
- Object Name
- Katagami
- Type
- Katagami
- Medium
- Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon juice (kakishibu), silk threads (itoire)
- Dimensions
- 26.4 × 42 cm (10 3/8 × 16 9/16 in.)
- Mat: 35.5 × 45.5 cm (14 in. × 17 15/16 in.)
- made in
- Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1939-72-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4c50e9d00-2c8c-473c-8e96-5c0149d16318
