Rare Japanese Tea Ceremony Scroll Painting, Woven Color Banner, Fujiwara no Atsutada's "Ise no Umi" Poem, Gold Brocade Shikishi

■ This is likely a shikishi (poem card) related to Ise Jingu Shrine.
■ Enlarging the image of the shikishi reveals that the characters are woven.
■ Hanging scroll, woven shikishi, Fujiwara no Atsutada's waka, gold brocade (tsuzure-ori) shikishi.
■ Tsuzure-ori is a technique characterized by expressing characters through weaving, unlike writing them with ink.
■ This is a tsuzure-ori piece of Fujiwara no Atsutada's poem by the prestigious Nishijin weaving house Tofuku (Tofuku is written on the lid of the scroll box), referring to Tofuku, a long-established weaving workshop in Kyoto's Nishijin district. They are known as a workshop specializing in tsuzure-ori among Nishijin textiles.
■ How about for your tea ceremony? This is a rare antique.
■ We await bids from antique collectors and tea ceremony practitioners.

■ Dimensions: Approximately 121cm total length
■ Total width: 37.5cm
■ (Including roller dimensions: 42.2cm)
■ Box length: 44.5cm
■ Please allow for slight errors.

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