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29-96-118B

From: Japan

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 29-96-118B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Japanese
Provenience Japan
Period Edo Period (uncertain) | Meiji Period (uncertain)
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Cotton
Technique Painted
Iconography Mon | Family Crest | Castle | Umemon | Plum Blossom | Kaga Maeda
Description

A banner known as a nobori-bata (幟旗). It depicts a castle on with various flags and banners surrounded by clouds at the bottom. The top has a wide band and a thin band in black with a mon (family crest) in the middle.

Length 404 cm
Width 96 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904

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