850-1100
greatest dimen.: 21.4 cm (8 7/16 in.)
Thomas Whittemore, Cambridge, MA (by 1951), gift: to the Fogg Museum.
One of a pair of chūban (medium-sized) sheets of minogami (mulberry bark paper) treated with persimmon juice and cut using the "tsukibori" (thrust-carving) technique; with blue pigment
19th-20th centuryJapanese