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  • stencil (katagami 型紙), Komon 小紋. Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): bishamon kikkō 毘沙門亀甲 and dots, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 3925-4234
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Title
  • Komon 小紋. Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): bishamon kikkō 毘沙門亀甲 and dots
Production
Period | Style | School
Measurements
  • height: 24.7 cm
  • width: 42.6 cm
  • 1 Muster - height: 17.2 cm
  • 1 Muster - width: 38.4 cm
Inventory number
  • OR 3925-4234
Acquisition
  • assumption , 1907
Department
  • Asia Collection
Description
    "Dyed ground" (jizomari 地染). Bishamon kikkō 毘沙門亀甲: a pattern with three composite kikkō (mitsumori kikkō 三盛亀甲 = „triple“ kikkō). Since Bishamon-ten 毘沙門天, god of fortune and guardian, is often depicted in an armor with this pattern (as in Tōdaiji 東大寺, Nara), this pattern is commonly called bishamon kikkō. Stencils for komon 小 紋 ("fine pattern") are mostly made in the drill cutting technic. The pattern of komon is not oriented in a specific direction and is so fine that it appears monochrome from a distance.
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  • stencil (katagami 型紙), Komon 小紋. Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): bishamon kikkō 毘沙門亀甲 and dots, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 3925-4234
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  • 12.10.2026


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