Hanafubuki / [chosakusha Ueno Seikō]

1904 · Kyōto-shi : Honda Kinnosuke : Hatsubaijo Honda Unkindō · 14 pictures

Hanafubuki is a 1904 Kyoto pattern book of kimono designs compiled by Ueno Seikō and published by Honda Kinnosuke for the textile trade. Its pages show full-length kimono bodies in flat colour, each printed with a small motif placed along the hem or scattered across the ground, so a designer can study how sparse repeat patterns of flowers, cranes and grasses are spaced against a solid field.

Textile design -- Japan · Textile design -- Japan -- Kyoto · Kimonos -- Pattern design -- Japan · Kimonos -- Pattern design -- Japan -- Kyoto

Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art · No known copyright restrictions · More from this library