Large dyed silk? or other textile - Samurai

I acquired this a few years ago at an auction - if the pics look a bit askew it's because it's not hanging level. It's about 6 feet tall, so the figure is life size. Can anyone tell me anything about it - All I know is I think the figure is a samurai. I'm not sure if it's silk - it was rolled up when I bought it so it has some wrinkles.

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He looks like he's Japanese and probably a batik.

 

I wondered if it was batik - I just know nothing about batik so I couldn't say

 

If he's a batik odds are it's actually cotton (I plead brains fried by MS + goofy weather). It takes a fairly sturdy fabric to stand up to the technique. Your hands will tell you the difference, or if they don't grab a teenager.

 

It does feel like a fairly sturdy fabric, and not as soft or smooth as I would expect from silk - so probably cotton or perhaps linen?

 

Odds are cotton; I don't think I've ever seen something made of linen coming from Japan.

 

Good to know, and thank you for your help

 

The image is Japanese which is not to say the textile is.

Debora

 

Is this a textile painting of the famous cross eyed shogun Youa Noseemee?

 

Hee hee - he does look a bit cross eyed - which is enhanced by the fact that the fabric is hanging at an angle - pulling his eyes a bit closer together - however perhaps this was meant by the artist to be a depiction of the Mie pose(of which crossed eyes are an element meant to display anger)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mie_(pose)

 

The cross eyed mention led me to the Mie pose ...which has now led me to wonder if perhaps this is a depiction of Kamakura Gongoro Kagemasa from the kabuki play Shibaraku.