Women haori with night landscape and rooster; Haori for a woman with a decoration on the whole surface of a representation of an ox cart and two boxes for the shell game; in a nocturnal landscape with flowers; water; rocks and pine motifs; the lining of a crowing rooster in the dawn against a red background; referring to saying goodbye to the border post at Osaka; where lovers were secretly meeting each other. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: 'There may be some who are cheated by the crowing of the rooster that falsely breaks the silence of the night; but that deception will not apply to the Border Post at Osaka; where lovers have their rendezvous .' Black fine crepe silk (kinsha) with a damask woven decoration of; exterior and lining with painted yuzen decoration and embroidered detailing. Three family arms (mon) of the 'snake eye motif' (janome).; anonymous; Japan; 1920 - 1940; silk; embroidering; h 125 cm x w 93 cm