Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century Worked in predominantly silk threads, inventively deploying long and short stitches, flat and twisted threads in a palette of gold, blue, green, grey and red, elaborately depicting the Dainehan (Death of the Historical Buddha), showing numerous lay people, monks, deities and beasts gathering in lamentation around the dais on which the corpse of the Buddha reclines, descending from the top left on a bed of clouds is his mother, Queen Maya in the centre flanked by a retinue of attendants, unsigned; with a detachable cast iron rod, other components for suspension and two tasselled ropes. Overall: 206cm x 230cm (81 1/8in x 90½in); image: 189.5cm x 212cm (74 5/8in x 83½in); the rod: 264.5cm (104 1/8in). (10).