Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — Gorgeous Japanese Robes. [ARTICLE]

Gorgeous Japanese Robes.

In number tbe diaphanous robes worn by a Japanese woman of high rank of tbe 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 wore as many as twenty-five suits, showlrg glimpses of purple, of crimson, of grass screen, of wild rose yellow and of saps urwood brown, their sleeves, and skirts decorated with golden designs, while jptiiers, by subtle commingling of willow sprays and cherry blossoms and py embroidered patterns picked out £th gems, represented the poem of t Jewels and the flowers.”