Dashi-fukusa Cloth (Tea-things) (asukasyokkoukin)

An item for tea ceremony, good for interior decoration, too.

Shokko Nishiki
Shokko Nishiki is a type of brocade produced in Chengdu, the capital of the Shu Kingdom (221-263) in China, and was already famous before the Three Kingdoms Period. In the Horyuji temple in Nara, there are two types of Shoku-benishiki, designated as important cultural properties, both of which have a red background, one with a floral pattern in a lattice and the other with a geometric pattern, both of which are completely different from the pattern of this brocade. It is said that it was after the Southern Song dynasty (1277-1279) that Shokubong brocade began to have patterns like this brocade, and after that, brocade called Shokubong brocade had patterns like this
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This product was woven as a sutra brocade by imitating the Shokubeni brocade, which is thought to be from the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, among the famous brocades handed down in the Maeda family, and devising the color tone. (Reproduced without permission)