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Kata-gami : Umbrellas, water and pine needle clusters

Unknownlate 19th century

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Bird's eye view of umbrellas with water puddles below

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  • Title: Kata-gami : Umbrellas, water and pine needle clusters
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: late 19th century
  • Physical Dimensions: w425 x h321 cm
  • Type: Stencil
  • Rights: Gift of Helen Snyder
  • Medium: Mulberry paper, lacquer made from persimmon juice, silk thread
  • Dimensions: 3.2 x 42.8 cm (1 1/4 x 16 7/8 in.)
  • Bibliography: Japanese Design through Textile Patterns Frances Blakemore (Tokyo, Japan: John Weatherhill, Inc., l978), p. 230Kata-gami - Japanese Stencils in the Collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Elaine Evans Dee (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979), unpaginatedRain and Snow: The Umbrella in Japanese Art Julia Meech with essays by H. Yabushita and S. Kohler (New York: Japan Society, Inc., 1993), p. 120, no. 98, ill.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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