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"Amime-mon" is an original Chiyogami pattern featuring curved lines facing each other to form a fishing net motif.
Just as the net enables the fisherman to catch many fish in one go, the pattern was favored by the samurai as it symbolized victory over many opponents at one time.
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Chiyogami had its beginnings in Kyoto during the Edo period (1603 - 1867). It began with flowers, birds, and other patterns from nature, popular subjects in the Yuzen* patterns, drawn onto Japanese paper. Such paper came to be printed using the woodblock printing technology of Edo (present-day Tokyo), and incorporated other patterns used in colored prints of the day. The paper soon became popular throughout Japan.
*Yuzen: Japanese traditional dyeing technique that originated in the 8th century created by painter Yuzen Miyazaki. |
