Executed in colored silk and with areas worked in low relief, all against a ground of gold-wrapped threads. The panels depicting a peacock, butterfly, and magnolia; sparrows, butterfly, and chrysanthemum; sparrows and prunus; a pair of ducks, butterflies, and iris; framed, matted, and glazed.
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For a panel depicting a sea eagle above crashing waves, wrought on a gold ground, from the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, see Hiroko T. McDermott and Clare Pollard, Threads of Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, 2013, exhibition #12.