Book Cover: Inome Pattern

Children's Day in 2026 is scheduled to fall on May 5 (Tuesday). In Japan, it was introduced as one of the five festivals in the Nara and Heian periods, and by the Edo period (1603-1867), it had spread from the samurai to the common people, leading to the culture of carp streamers and warrior dolls. In modern times, it has taken root as an important event for boys, with its original meaning as a celebration to ward off bad luck and pray for good health.
Tatsumura Bijutsu Orimono offers a variety of May dolls and patterns suitable for to convey such feelings. Please take this opportunity to select from a wide variety of well-designed patterns for warding off evil spirits, including traditional scale patterns.

The heart-shaped pattern is called "I-no-me" because it resembles an eye of wild boar, and it was often used on the decorative devices o f doors and other equipments of temples and shrines. Wild boar had been dei fied as an amulet and warding off evil by its strong impression conveyed by the eyes, and thought as a messenger of fire prevention and an administrator of fortune. "Menuki", ornamental cover of rivet to connect sword hilt and sword blade, had been developed with the passage of time to the chief decoration of sword handle, and many designs of wild boar worked extremely de licate technique have been seen on the "Menuki". We have composed a design by vertically placing wavy pattern of metal fittings of "I-no-me (wild boar eye)", and wild boar seen in "Menuki" of a sword in the center, and have woven into warp-patterned brocade.