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This irotomesode possesses a lustrous shushi silk that provides a reflective quality enhancing the vibrancy of the design. The deep purple ground creates a dramatic backdrop for an exuberant floral composition that cascades along the hem in the traditional married woman's kimono format. The flowers are rendered using tsutsugaki painting technique with pigment dyes that achieve remarkably saturated colors - brilliant turquoise, warm coral-orange, and vivid greens that seem to glow against the rich purple silk. The detail image reveals the sophisticated layering of techniques, showing large-scale blooms with radiating petals painted in gradated blues and oranges, while green foliage provides structural contrast.
The artistic treatment reflects the period's embrace of more expressive color palettes while maintaining classical floral motifs, suggesting influence from both traditional Japanese decorative arts and the emerging international Art Nouveau movement with its emphasis on naturalistic forms and bold color combinations. The combination of tsutsugaki painting, freehand painted highlights, and multiple embroidery techniques using both silk and metallic threads creates a rich textural surface that would have shimmered and caught light as the wearer moved. This technical complexity and chromatic intensity demonstrate the high level of craftsmanship available to affluent patrons during this period, when traditional textile arts were being revitalized through innovative approaches to color and technique while preserving essential aesthetic principles of balance and seasonal appropriateness.
It possesses five family crests (mon) and measures 50 inches (127 cm) from sleeve-end to sleeve-end, standing at a height of 61 inches (155 cm).