Rare Japanese Kawabaori Leather Fireman's Jacket, Edo Period. Smoked leather (either deerskin or water buffalo) coat with design created by a smoking process (inden) which created the design and also made the textile waterproof. Before the smoking dying process, rice paste is applied with a stencil onto the leather to create a pattern reserved in white on the brown smoked leather. Such textiles were worn by high-ranking Japanese firemen, merchants and carpenters in the Edo period. For similar example, see: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3077.Size: 41'' x 51'' (104 x 130 cm). Ex. Cathryn Cootner Estate Collection, Sonoma, CA.

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