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Blue stencil dyed FUROSHIKI with a boy and a girl under a plum tree. The blossoms cascade downward. A boy on the left of the tree who wears a kimono and EDO period boy's hairstyle is riding a wooden horse stick. His kimono is orange black green plaid…

A brown stencil-dyed FUROSHIKI with animal zodiac motifs in rectangles left undyed. The animals are in blue dark orange and green. The Mitsukoshi Department Store logo is in lower right corner. Two sides hemmed. The material appears to be synthetic…

A stencil-dyed FUROSHIKI with 4 corners in red and orange tie-dye KANOKO motif. Inside the diamond shaped center are 3 dolls of the Kyo Ningyo type pulling an orange cord wrapped around one wheel of a palace wagon called GOSHO GURUMA. The wagon is…

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…