Black silk jacket (habutae haori) with 5 mon depicting five-leafed cherry blossom. Half lined in white silk on which a landscape is painted in black sumi ink with touches of yellow. The sleeves are lined in grey silk. The haori is made from standard kimono length, the excess turned up to make a deep hem. There are gussets each side. Sleeves are open with a single stitch half way down each opening. Sleeves 50.5 cm deep, 34 cm wide.
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