The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 7, 2026

A square textile fragment displays a symmetrical pattern woven in muted golden-brown and dark blue. Large eight-petaled flowers anchor a grid of dark vertical and horizontal lines. Within these sections, smaller circular blossoms and scrolling cloud shapes repeat. The finely ridged cloth has a vertical seam running through its center, while the outer edges appear unevenly cut and slightly frayed.

Silk Square Used in Tea Ceremony

1700s–1800s

Japan

silk
Average: 28 x 28.6 cm (11 x 11 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1930.630
Location: Not on view
  • ?-1930
    Kuroda Takuma 黒田太久馬 [1867-?], Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1930-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.630