Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — Gorgeous Japanese Robes. [ARTICLE]

Gorgeous Japanese Robes.

In number the diaphanous robes worn by a Japanese woman of high rank of the eleventh or twelfth century were seldom less than twenty, while on great occasions even more might be necessary. Thus at a great palace fete It Is said that “some as many as twenty-five suits, showing glimpses of purple, of crimson, of grass green, of wild rose yellow and of sapanwood brown, their sleeves and skirts decorated with golden designs, while others, by subtle commingling of willow sprays and cherry blossoms and by embroidered patterns picked out with gems, represented the poem of the jewels and the flowers.”