Set of two embroidered Uchikake Japanese Wedding kimonos. Both are embroidered with cranes and weighted at the bottom.
The uchikake is a lined silk robe with a wadded or padded hem, worn over another garment without a sash, usually for formal occasions or stage performances. The origins of the use of this garment among women of the samurai elite can be traced back to the Kamakura period (1185–1333).