Title
- Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): checkerboard pattern with short vertical lines
Collection
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
Measurements
- height: 30.1 cm
- width: 40.6 cm
- pattern - height: 19.1 cm
- pattern - width: 34.4 cm
Inventory number
- OR 3925-7369
Acquisition
- assumption , 1907
Department
- Asia Collection
Description
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"Dyed ground" (jizomari 地染), probably a part of a set (hazure はずれ). A kind of Ichimatsu monyō 市松文様 (= "checkerboard" pattern) with vertical stripes in the sqaures.
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), Surface pattern (waritsuke monyō 割付文様): checkerboard pattern with short vertical lines, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 3925-7369
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https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/surface-pattern-waritsuke-monyo-割付文様-checkerboard-pattern-with-short-vertical-lines_318507
Last update
- 10.08.2026