DepartmentTextiles-Asia
Tenugui (hand towel) with yokai images
NameMulti-Purpose Cloth
Maker
Kitamura Saki
CultureJapanese
Date2016
Place madeKanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, East Asia, Asia
MediumCotton, natural vegetal dye
Dimensions35 1/8 × 13 1/2 × 1/16 in. (89.25 × 34.25 × 0.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase, A.2017.85.1
Object numberA.2017.85.1
DescriptionRectangular cloth with small rounded rectangular panels of dyed images; there are 44 panels with dyed images; the color of dye is navy at the edges and pink and purple near the center, panels depict different figures and scenes of various "obake" creatures
1900-1925
Artist Not Recorded
ca. 1956
