Gold Brocades, Tapestries, Velvets, Buddhist Scriptures of the Ming Dynasty, and Decorative Mao-Chang Rugs

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Excerpt from Gold Brocades, Tapestries, Velvets, Buddhist Scriptures of the Ming Dynasty, and Decorative Mao-Chang Rugs: A Collection Formed by Kozen Sato, Buddhist Traveller in Northern China and MongoliaThe narrow strips of gold brocade are known as Ohi They were used by Buddhist priests as prayer-mats during the ritual ceremony. They con sist of rare and valuable textiles from China and Japan, which only em perors, empresses and the nobility were allowed to wear.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.