An uchikake [outer-kimono for a woman] | Showa period, 20th century

An uchikake [outer-kimono for a woman] 

Showa period, 20^th century 

the thick long-sleeved outer robe in silk weave, decorated in stencil dye (kata-yuzen), embroidery in gold-wrapped silk threads, with branches of blossoming plum, stalks of bamboo and pine forming the Three Friends of Winter (shochikubai) interspersed with scattered fan-shaped cartouches, alternately depicting ox-carts, peonies, pine, cranes in flight, chrysanthemums and irises, red silk interior lining 

Please note that the lot is sold without the display stand. For the kimono stand, see Lot 1100.