* HAN JUBAN
Japan, late Edo (circa 1840), cm 120x81.
The ‘han juban’ is an half length garment which is worn under a kimono. Those used by women were, in the past, mostly obtained by patching together silks obtained by discarded kimonos, and the results were often amazing assembles of multi-coloured silks. ‘Male’ jubans were (starting from Meiji) usually more conservatively done, and obtained from new silk fabrics. However, during Edo, it was not uncommon to find patchwork male jubans too, as it is the case with the present item. Diverse old silk fabrics, in the shades of blue, have been shaped to obtain this lightly padded underkimono.
The result is awesome, with aqua silks facing deep sky-blue patches and a great fragment from a luxury kimono where ethereal butterflies populate the space together with plants in a sort of Pandora-like planet…
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*JUBAN
This is an antique juban (undergarment), which seems to be from late Edo Period (1603-1867).
It is made mostly of thin and delicate silk, and elaborately jointed(patchwork).
It is wonderful old fashioned taste!
Red fabric in the front bottom and lining blue fabrics are cotton.
It has some flaws as photos show, but as a whole it is in very good condition.