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Antique wool kimono with woven sayagata pattern
A lovely old kimono with a woven sayagata pattern in white and red on a black ground. This woolen fabric (blended with just 1% nylon for durability) is light supple and pleasant to touch.
It is in excellent condition for the age, and it measures 160 cm long, 64 cm from centre to sleeve edge, and the sleeve drop is 45 cm. This is a generously cut kimono that would possibly fit some men as well as women, so measure yourself up using the size image as a guide!
Some very slight starch marks on the interior, please look well at all photos. It is definitely very wearable!
• Saaya: Also seen as Saayagata and sayagata. Buddhist crosses, (swastika). Sayagata is a pattern of interlocking manji (swastika) (sometimes spelled saayagata). Swastika are also sometimes called manji and mangi
• Sayagata: the swastika is often found as part of a repeating pattern. One common pattern, called sayagata in Japanese, is made of of interlocking manji/swastikas, left- and right-facing swastikas joined by lines. As the negative space between the lines has a distinctive shape, the sayagata pattern is sometimes called the “key fret” motif in English.
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