Vintage Japanese Silk Rinzu Kimono Hishi Diamond Floral Panels Showa Furisode Vase design variations

design variations

Macassar ebony veneer on sugi case

Likely used for ceremonial purposes or pageantry in the 19th century

Konoshima Okoku (1877-1938)

Having been used lovingly and protected in a storage box for over a century

Vintage Japanese Silk Rinzu Kimono Hishi Diamond Floral Panels Showa Furisode Vase design variationsVintage Japanese silk rinzu damask kimono, allover hishi diamond panel composition with polychrome yuzen botan peony, kiku, rose and iris on vermillion ground, Showa era Japan; Showa era, mid 20th century, c. 1950s1970s A visually commanding vintage Japanese silk kimono in vibrant vermillion orange (, hi iro), the ground woven in rinzu () silk damask with an allover cloud scroll self pattern that gives the fabric depth and movement even before the