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A variegated design with a multitude of elements in which blue and pink tones predominate. The scene is crossed by the course of a river and on both sides flowers, pumpkin plants and reeds. Three large chariots, decorated with plant motifs and three open fans are intermingled with the flowers. \Ox-drawn carts of this type were used by members of the Imperial Household and also by the high aristocracy of the Heian period (794-1185). \Both the rigid fan, invented in China, and the folding fan, which seems to have originated in Japan, spread throughout Asia from very early times, later reaching the West (where the rigid model had existed since classical antiquity). In traditional Japan, fans were worn by both men and women. For men it was a symbol of success and military courage, while women also wore them for dancing. At the time our book was published, fans were particularly famous in Kyoto, where there are still more than 100 workshops specializing in the manufacture of these delicate objects. \In Japan, as in China, pumpkins are a symbol of fertility, longevity and good luck. They were the personal emblem of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, an important figure in Japanese history. \Books of this type were known in Japan as hinagata-bon (literally, books of beautiful forms), and began to be printed as early as the late 16th century so that customers could choose designs for their clothes. They usually showed an entire kimono per page, and their features remained unchanged with little change until the early 19th century. By the Meiji period (1868-1912), to which our books belong, the hinagata-bon had become more formally daring, often showing designs asymmetrically and partially. These compendiums of textile motifs were changed every spring and autumn, and copies of the previous collection were resold on the second-hand market. Some came to the attention of Westerners, and thus a number of hinagata-bon have ended up in European and American collections, including that of the Costume Museum Library. \This wonderful five-volume design series entitled Nihon or Nippon, i.e. Japan, is curiously anonymous; there is no record of place of publication, date or publisher. However, its characteristics suggest that it was printed in Kyoto in the early years of the 20th century.
Title: Foil
Description:
A variegated design with a multitude of elements in which blue and pink tones predominate.
The scene is crossed by the course of a river and on both sides flowers, pumpkin plants and reeds.
Three large chariots, decorated with plant motifs and three open fans are intermingled with the flowers.
\Ox-drawn carts of this type were used by members of the Imperial Household and also by the high aristocracy of the Heian period (794-1185).
\Both the rigid fan, invented in China, and the folding fan, which seems to have originated in Japan, spread throughout Asia from very early times, later reaching the West (where the rigid model had existed since classical antiquity).
In traditional Japan, fans were worn by both men and women.
For men it was a symbol of success and military courage, while women also wore them for dancing.
At the time our book was published, fans were particularly famous in Kyoto, where there are still more than 100 workshops specializing in the manufacture of these delicate objects.
\In Japan, as in China, pumpkins are a symbol of fertility, longevity and good luck.
They were the personal emblem of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, an important figure in Japanese history.
\Books of this type were known in Japan as hinagata-bon (literally, books of beautiful forms), and began to be printed as early as the late 16th century so that customers could choose designs for their clothes.
They usually showed an entire kimono per page, and their features remained unchanged with little change until the early 19th century.
By the Meiji period (1868-1912), to which our books belong, the hinagata-bon had become more formally daring, often showing designs asymmetrically and partially.
These compendiums of textile motifs were changed every spring and autumn, and copies of the previous collection were resold on the second-hand market.
Some came to the attention of Westerners, and thus a number of hinagata-bon have ended up in European and American collections, including that of the Costume Museum Library.
\This wonderful five-volume design series entitled Nihon or Nippon, i.
e.
Japan, is curiously anonymous; there is no record of place of publication, date or publisher.
However, its characteristics suggest that it was printed in Kyoto in the early years of the 20th century.
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