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Beige background FUROSHIKI with a variety of family crests. Probably used the wax resist method. The crests are purple dark mustard wine green dyed and some are left undyed with blue outlines. The material appears to be synthetic fabric. Two sides…

Brown bordered FUROSHIKI is stencil-dyed and also uses wax resist method. Inside and near the edges of the two folding fan shaped areas there are bluish-grey bamboo flower arrangement vase with holders called KENZAN and the tools for tea ceremony…

A square nylon FUROSHIKI with gray gradation around top and lower corner with HIROSHIGE's wood block scene of one area of the TOKAIDO route. At upper right it reads: TOKAIDO GOJYU SAN TSUGU NO UCHI: KABAHARA (Tokaido route - 53 stations: at Kabahara)…

The purple FUROSHIKI with white bamboo with one side in light brown has a store's name on GINZA street in Tokuyo. It reads GINZA ECHI GOYA IN browin inside a circle. Two sides are hemmed and it is frayed at the seams. It appears that this was washed…

This silk furoshiki is almost square. The background is a deep purple with a variety of family crests MON scattered around the periphery of the furoshiki leaving a space in the middle. The MON are beige lavender and white in color. Some MON are a…

The handkerchief is folded into the shape of a HAPI. The design on the folded handkerchief is applied with the wax-resist method. The outer area of the coat shape has a vertical design in indigo and white. The collar is in black with writing…

A handmade doll of soft ribbed cotton wearing a cotton gauze YUKATA. The face is hand-embroidered in black thread except for the red embroidered lips. The hair is black yarn parted in the middle of the head and to its shoulders. The YUKATA is stencil…

On natural fiber black and white prints of Japanese warriors on horseback on their knees or sitting on stools with their weapons. In black circles are "X" marks or a group of four diamond shapes are horizontally arranged while some of these motifs…

A small hand made futon which seems to be for the dolls in the series. Made of plum colored cloth with abstract plaid design woven into in with ligth pink thread. The batting and material is tied together with bright green embroidery thread. Each of…

The doll is handmade of white soft ribbed cotton with a face embroidered in black thread. The mouth is embroidered in red the hair is of black yarn parted in the middle of the head with bangs and the length to its shoulders. The doll wears a…