Title
- Actor pattern (yakusha monyō 役者文様), surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): a kind of checkerboard pattern with seigaiha 青海波 (blue ocean waves), ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋ぎ (brick pattern) and ?
Collection
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
Measurements
- height: 25.4 cm
- width: 41 cm
- 1 Muster - height: 15.6 cm
- 1 Muster - width: 34.3 cm
Inventory number
- OR 3925-871
Acquisition
- assumption , 1907
Department
- Asia Collection
Description
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"Dyed ground" (jizomari 地染). A kind of Ichimatsu monyō 市松文様 (= "checkerboard" pattern) with alternating dark and patterned sqaures. Pattern, among other things: ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋ぎ (brick pattern), seigaiha 青海波 (blue ocean waves).
Ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋ぎ: "combination of Chinese character 一".
The checkerboard pattern ichimatsu monyō 市松文様, also ichimatsu kōshi 市松格子, is a ishidatami moyō 石畳模様 (= stone pavement pattern). The pattern is said to have come into fashion as "ichimatsu monyō" because the Kabuki actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I. 初代佐野川市松 (1722-1762) had worn a hakama with a stone pavement pattern during a performance, which caused a sensation.
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stencil (katagami 型紙), Actor pattern (yakusha monyō 役者文様), surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): a kind of checkerboard pattern with seigaiha 青海波 (blue ocean waves), ichi no ji tsunagi 一の字繋ぎ (brick pattern) and ?, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 3925-871
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Last update
- 10.08.2026
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