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badge, rank, fifth level

human history
  • Other Name

    pu fu

    pu fu (civil official’s insignia)

    insignia badge

    textile piece

    kossu

  • Description

    rank badge of wife of fifth rank civil official for the front of robe; cotton weave with metal thread, kossu; pieced down centre; pale blue pheasant on pattern of clouds, sun, earth, rocks, in blues and scarlet and gold thread; key pattern border, woven pattern with same printing? unfinished; identical to T30, except the panel is not pieced down the centre.

  • Place
  • Accession Number
    1966.181
  • Other Id

    T31 (textile)

  • Department
rank badge

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