Skip to content

stencil (katagami 型紙)

Komon 小紋. Animal pattern (dōbutsu monyō 動物文様): butterflies and dots
MAK/Georg Mayer

Download

Quote Recomendation
Copied to clipboard
  • stencil (katagami 型紙), Komon 小紋. Animal pattern (dōbutsu monyō 動物文様): butterflies and dots, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 3925-4636
Brief information on license and usage
Download (By downloading you accept our terms of use.)
Rights notice

Links
Terms of use
Repro request
Title
  • Komon 小紋. Animal pattern (dōbutsu monyō 動物文様): butterflies and dots
Collection
Production
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
Measurements
  • height: 25.1 cm
  • width: 45 cm
  • 1 Muster - height: 14.5 cm
  • 1 Muster - width: 40.6 cm
Inventory number
  • OR 3925-4636
Acquisition
  • assumption , 1907
Department
  • Asia Collection
Associated Objects
Description
    "Dyed ground" (jizomari 地染). The butterflies (chō 蝶), which undergo unusual shape change during their lives, are considered a symbol of immortality. Since it is said that butterflies spend their entire lives with the same partner, they also represent marital harmony, so they are often used as motifs on wedding kimonos. 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.
Quote Recomendation
Copied to clipboard
  • stencil (katagami 型紙), Komon 小紋. Animal pattern (dōbutsu monyō 動物文様): butterflies and dots, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 3925-4636
Permalink
Copied to clipboard
  • https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/komon-小紋-animal-pattern-dobutsu-monyo-動物文様-butterflies-and-dots_338944
Last update
  • 12.10.2026

Related via

Artist
Artist
Location
Material

wall tile

Deckelkrug

Heisswasserkessel

Schale mit Blumenmotiv

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), pattern with objects (kibutsu monyō 器物文様): ura ume 裏梅 (plum blossom underside), branches(?), kan 鐶 (metal bangles) and rectangular objects

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): narihisago 成瓢 (calabashes with leaves and tendrils) on net-like pattern

Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様), plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), autumn grasses (akikusa 秋草): gokaibishi 五階菱, Susuki grass and eastern valerian

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様): pine branches and ?

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様)/stripe pattern (shima monyō 縞文様): bamboo

Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様), pattern with objects (kibutsu monyō 器物文様), stripe pattern (shima monyō 縞文様): ikat pattern (kasuri moyō 絣模様) with izutsu 井筒

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), nature pattern (shizen monyō 自然文様), scattered pattern (chirashi monyō 散らし文様): flowers, sekka 雪華 ("snow flower") and yukiwa 雪輪 (snow crystals)

Part of a set. Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様), stripe pattern (shima monyō 縞文様): maple leaves on vertical irregular stripes (yōrōjima 養老縞)

Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): ikat pattern (kasuri moyō 絣模様)

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), pattern with objects (kibutsu monyō 器物文様): morning glories and vertical stripes as fence parts

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), pattern with objects (kibutsu monyō 器物文様): ura ume 裏梅 (plum blossom underside), branches(?), kan 鐶 (metal bangles) and rectangular objects

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): narihisago 成瓢 (calabashes with leaves and tendrils) on net-like pattern

Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様), plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様), autumn grasses (akikusa 秋草): gokaibishi 五階菱, Susuki grass and eastern valerian

Plant pattern (shokubutsu monyō 植物文様): pine branches and ?
Buy ticket
Become a patron
MAK Design Shop

Contact us

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
This field is hidden when viewing the form
Topic
Topic 2(Required)
Disclaimer(Required)

Latest Blog Posts

a never ending story … die Katagami-Sammlung des MAK

Zum 100. Geburtstag der „Frankfurter Küche“ von Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky – und in Erinnerung an eine Wiener Küche von Anton Brenner

Wer wird künftig in Museen arbeiten?

„Österreich in Paris“ – 100 Jahre Kunstgewerbeausstellung 1925

More Than Just Words: Experimental Poetry and Visual Art

More Than Just Words. Experimentelle Dichtung und bildende Kunst

Auf den Spuren des Gablonzer Christbaumschmucks

Lecture von Diedrich Diederichsen über Künstler*innenbücher

Lecture by Diedrich Diederichsen on Artists’ Books

Holzstock, Wurmloch und Klischees – Beobachtungen zu Dürers Ehrenpforte Kaiser Maximilians I.
More at MAK Blog