Cloth

Temple banners

Collected by the paper making library & museum, Tokyo, between 1957 and 1959.

Rectangular white cloth with dyed designs. In a scroll font, the word “Yamashoku” is in dark blue with a crossed castanet motif repeated above three times, in alternating blue and red. The design is repeated five times towards one end, varying widths and angles. There are two selvage edges and two raw edges.