Women’s kimono decorated with pheasants and autumn plants, anonymous, 1920 - 1940
Married women wore kimonos with narrower sleeves. The kurotomesode was their most formal item of clothing. It is always plain black with decoration confined to the base, in this instance a pair of pheasants among autumn plants. Made of thin, loosely woven silk, for wear on warm days in late summer, its autumnal decoration anticipated the coming season.