Inside Out Library · Explore

Guide to the Japanese textiles (1919)

Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles, Smith, A. D. Howell, Koop, Albert J. (Albert James), 1877-1945 · London : Printed under the authority of H. M. Stationery Off. · leaf 40

An illustration from Guide to the Japanese textiles, 1919, leaf 40
A retired emperor (dajd-tennd) for formal wear used a red ho with a diaper of large six-lobed medallions enclosing kiri and sasa badges on a plain ground or the same enclosing eight-rayed kiku-mon (chrysanthemum) and surrounded by sprays of the same flower. Fig. 3. Fusen-rid. … Fig. 4. Wanashi. Fig. 5. Kutsuwa-karakusa.

Textile fabrics

Internet Archive · Harold B. Lee Library · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Guide to the Japanese textiles

More like this