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A SILK EMBROIDERED WALL HANGING pasted onto the background, the lower left signed in ink Sekka with a
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century seal; framed and glazed. Overall 57cm x 93.5cm (22½in x 36 7/8in),
Handwoven with different shades of green, brown and white silk thread image 44.5cm x 81cm (17½in x 81 7/8in).
with six ducks on the banks of a river among daisies in the foreground,
framed by a grove of windswept bamboo, within a brown silk border £1,500 - 2,000
woven with repeated stylized chrysanthemums and other flowers; JPY210,000 - 280,000
unsigned. Overall 203.5cm x 144cm (80 1/8in x 56 11/16in), US$1,900 - 2,500
image 175cm x 116cm (68 7/8in x 45 5/8In).
£1,000 - 1,500 Oshi-e, also known as kiritori zaiku was a technique in which paper
JPY140,000 - 210,000 or silk wadding is covered with dyed and painted silk or paper to
US$1,200 - 1,900 create padded relief designs. Little is known of this technique, but it
probably dates back to the Muromachi Period. In the Meiji era, oshi-e
192 was regarded as a feminine accomplishment alongside ikebana, tea
AN ORNAMENTAL PANEL ceremony and embroidery. Few recorded examples survive today
MADE IN THE OSHI-E (PADDED-SILK) TECHNIQUE but the genre were displayed in the ‘Fancy Articles’ section of the
The Painting by Sekka, Meiji era (1868-1912), Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. 1
late 19th/early 20th century
A horizontal painting, ink, colour and kirihaku on silk, depicting the Notes:
method of green-tea processing, consisting of women on the upper 1. Hiroko T. McDermot and Clare Pollard, Threads of Silk and Gold,
left corner plucking tea leaves from tea bushes, men transferring Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Oxford, The Ashmolean
baskets of fresh tea leaves, some selling to a merchant, another Museum, 2012, pp.178-183.
steaming leaves, others rubbing and a woman drying the leaves for
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