EditorialOcean Wave Hexagons, Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire), Ocean wave (seikaiha) hexagons (kikko) form this geometric motif. During the feudal period, samurai would wear armor constr...
EditorialMen's Kimono, Lining Men's haori with baseball players, Haori for a man with a decoration on the lining of a scene from a baseball game, seen from behind the mesh of the home plate, to which a baseball player dives, touched by the catcher, with a batti...
EditorialDish, Edo period (1615?1868), 1850, Japan, Faience covered with glaze and decorated with incised medallions (Raku ware), H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); W. sq. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Ceramics, Kikko (Japanese,).