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Product Name : | KIMEKOMI Doll at Boy’s May Festival (Tempyo Brocade With A Hunting Scene) |
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Product type : | Doll |
Size (cm) : | Rug W25.0 × H24.5 / Doll W18.5 × H23.0 × D15.0 |
Related Tags : | Celebration and return of congratulations、 Interior、 May dolls、 Wrapping available、 Design: brocade with Tenpyo hunting design、 Mokumekomi Dolls、 Shosoin cleft、 seasonal festivals、 |
Remark : | Please note that the pattern may be different from the picture shown due to the cutting process. Please be forewarned. |
Other : | Gift wrapping service available |
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Product Description
Wooden doll for Boy’s May Festival with traditional costume tucked into grooves in the core wood.
Pattern Description
Tempyō Syuryōmon Nishiki(Tempyō Brocade with a Hunting Scene)

The original brocade from which our textile was reproduced has been handed down in the Shösõ-in in Nara. Its design is a so-called "hunting" pattern in which the "pearled" medallions are surrounded by the "vine arabesques", and within these roundels, four horsemen shooting leoards are represented with flowering trees, running sheep and deer. In a space between the roundels, are arranged lozenges which are skillfully combined with lions and long-tailed birds.
Both "hunting" pattern and "pearled" roundel are the peculiar design of Sassanian Persia, and the patterning of this brocade is a most typical one of Sassanian Persia found in the T'ang Dynasty (A.D.618-906). when we eompare this piece with the "hunting scene" brocade kept in the Horyu-ji Temple, the lines are softer and the line up of the design is more complex, and thus we can see the transition of times.