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*''Japanese'': 名物裂 ''(meibutsu gire)''
''Meibutsugire'', or famous scraps, were pieces of brocade, damask, and other lavish imported textiles which were treasured by [[Edo period]] [[tea ceremony]] practitioners. Most were either Chinese textiles from the [[Yuan dynasty|Yuan]] or [[Ming dynasty|Ming]] dynasties, or Indian textiles imported more recently (in the 17th-18th centuries). Tea practitioners compiled ''kogirechô'' scrapbooks of such textiles, which they then used as references when selecting or reusing cloths as ''[[furoshiki]]'' or for use otherwise in the tea ceremony practice.
A particularly famous example of such ''kogirechô'' is ''Record of Distinguished Objects of Past and Present'', compiled by [[Matsudaira Fumai]] and reproduced in a [[printing and Publishing|woodblock-printed form]] in [[1789]] to [[1797]].
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==References==
*Gallery labels, Tokyo National Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/9580589432/in/dateposted-public/]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]