Antique Japanese Katagami Paper Kimono Stencil Katazome Butterfly Design A779 drum Characters: 安芸厳島紅葉谷公園 Aki Itsukushima Momijidani

Characters: 安芸厳島紅葉谷公園 Aki Itsukushima Momijidani Koen

This vintage Japanese boxed hanging scroll (kakejiku or makimono) is titled 'A Hundred Cranes' and features a hundred cranes flying above a mountain landscape

2 cm long x  6 mm wide

It is round with little depth and slightly textured on the front side

Antique Japanese Katagami Paper Kimono Stencil Katazome Butterfly Design A779 drum Characters: 安芸厳島紅葉谷公園 Aki Itsukushima MomijidaniAntique Japanese Katagami Kimono Stencil Katazome Japanese Katagami is a stencil pattern for dyeing textiles used for printing designs and patterns on kimono and other fabric items. Using traditional mulberry washi paper, this katagami stencil with silk backing features a flutter of butterflies (chouchou). This antique Katagami was designed during the mid or late Edo period (1860) to early Meiji (1900) in Central Japan. It is made of two or more