Overview
- Museum No.
- IK140
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Category | Textiles (I), Textilies |
Country | China |
Period | Ming |
Century | 16th~17th |
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Japanese practitioners of chanoyu, the Way of Tea, were also connoisseurs of rare imported textiles, which they used to make cloth pouches for precious tea utensils. Among the “celebrated textiles” (meibutsu gire) they favored were those with stripes and checks. They called such fabrics kantō.
China-Ming