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Unlike the dragons of Western mythology, in Asia the dragon is associated with wealth and good fortune. Dragons were a popular motif in Japanese art and their exotic unfamiliarity appealed to Western customers enthralled by the notion of the mysterious Eastern land of Japan. Note the way the dragons’ scaly bodies and faces are worked in couched metallic thread, applied over cotton wadding and rolled paper to give a three dimensional effect. (Exhibition number 3)
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 2 p. 89, illus. p. 89
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