Title: Kesa (Buddhist priest's robe)
Object type: Robe
Date: late 19th to early 20th century
Culture: Japanese
Artist:  Japanese , late Edo to early Meiji period
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Silk, gold leaf on lacquered paper strip, and gold leaf on lacquered paper-strip-wrapped cotton, warp-float-faced 4/1 satin weave with weft-float-faced 1/2 "z" twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts.
Dimensions: Height: 117.5 cm.
Width: 200.4 cm.
Classification: Textiles-Ecclesiastical
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY