Title
- Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様), nature pattern (shizen monyō 自然文様): a kind of checkerboard pattern and snow crystals (yukiwa 雪輪) with kikkō tsunagi 亀甲繋ぎ (connected tortoise shells/hexagons)
Collection
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
Measurements
- height: 32.5 cm
- width: 41 cm
- 1 Muster - height: 21.8 cm
- 1 Muster - width: 35.2 cm
Inventory number
- OR 3925-1458
Acquisition
- assumption , 1907
Department
- Asia Collection
Description
- "Dyed ground" (jizomari 地染), possibly a part of a set (hazure はずれ). A kind of Ichimatsu monyō 市松文様 (= "checkerboard" pattern) e.g. with diagonal and vertical stripes, with grid in the sqaures.
- Kikkō tsunagi 亀甲繋ぎ (connected tortoise shells/hexagons): a geometric pattern of hexagons, that was already found in Sassanid art and is said to have come to Japan via China and Korea during the Nara period (710-794). Because of the resemblance to the turtle shell shield, it is called kikko 亀甲. It counts as an auspicious pattern (kisshō monyō 吉祥文様) since the Heian period (794-1185, also 794-1192).
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stencil (katagami 型紙), Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様), nature pattern (shizen monyō 自然文様): a kind of checkerboard pattern and snow crystals (yukiwa 雪輪) with kikkō tsunagi 亀甲繋ぎ (connected tortoise shells/hexagons), Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 3925-1458
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Last update
- 25.04.2026
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