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Noh Robe (Awase kariginu)
Late Edo early Meji period
Circa 1830-40.
The colour of dried apricots
Silk Complex gauze with block printed cranes
And bamboo in olive green.
A very similar piece in Chicago Art Institute
Ass. No 1940 1102a and published in Five centuries of Japanese Kimono pub The Art Institute Chicago 1992 pg 56
 
   
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