The Kin'un Emaki — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Wall Tapestry, Edo Procession in Gold on Champagne - Wall Hangings
Price from €600 to €1,070
The whole of Edo, woven into a single Fukuro-obi. The most complex textile in the collection. At a glance: A fukuro obi in Nishijin kinran gold carrying a full Edo procession, mounted between hardwood bars at 32 cm wide, in three lengths of 55, 78 and 88 cm cut from the same obi. The most complex textile in the collection; once these lengths are gone, no more exist. Japanese ceremonial silk, finished at the Renaras atelier, Amsterdam; ships worldwide. The Kin'un Emaki is a wall tapestry mounted from a fukuro-obi (袋帯), the double-layered obi reserved for the most formal Japanese ceremonial dress. The original was woven in Nishijin kinran (西陣金襴), gold-foil-wrapped thread carried through a champagne silk ground. Along its full length a procession unfolds scene by scene: figures crossing bridges, palanquins passing beneath shop awnings, market stalls picked out in colour against the gold field — the narrative logic of the emakimono (絵巻物), the Japanese picture scroll, held in a single weave. A procession at this scale is a commission, not a production. The piece exists once. At the atelier we cut the composition to tapestry format, lined the reverse with undyed support cloth to carry the weight of the metallic thread, and mounted the silk between handmade hardwood bars at top and bottom, finished with a leather hanging cord. The bars are part of the work, not a separate acquisition. Nothing on the visible surface has been altered; the silk hangs as it was woven. This is our mottainai — new imagination brought into a living tradition. This is the piece for the wall that carries the room: the principal hall of a private residence, the central wall of a restaurant or hotel lobby, the entrance of a gallery. The room that is meant to be remembered. The collector who acquires the Kin'un Emaki is not decorating a room. They are completing one. Each tapestry arrives with its passport from the atelier-a small handmade record of the silk's first life and its transformation, signed and dated in Amsterdam. Product type Wall tapestry Silk source Japanese ceremonial silk -fukuro-obi (袋帯) in Nishijin kinran (西陣金襴) brocade Weave / technique Nishijin Kinran brocade, double-layered Fukuro-obi Construction Cut and redesigned from the original obi; lined with undyed support cloth; mounted on handmade hardwood bars, top and bottom; leather hanging cord supplied. No metal touches the visible silk Dimensions 32 cm wide; 55, 78 or 88 cm drop, three lengths from one obi Origin of silk Japan Assembled in Amsterdam, Netherlands Care Dust with a soft brush; keep out of direct sunlight Unrepeatable Yes SKU REN-TEN-006-D For private viewings and hospitality enquiries, contact the atelier. Ships worldwide. One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.
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Item The Kin'un Emaki — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Wall Tapestry, Edo Procession in Gold on Champagne
Created by Renaras
As seen in Creator's Studio, San Francisco, CA
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