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Kasuri(Japanese Ikat)

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Kasuri(Japanese Ikat) is a relatively new dyeing and weaving technique in the long history of Japanese textiles.

Kasuri is admired for its softly blurred patterns and gentle tonal variations, created by pre-dyeing the threads before weaving.
November 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Kimono de verano, período Taisho, 1911-1927, Japón.
Seda, tejido liso, urdimbre y trama anudadas a mano kasuri.
June 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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This kimono demonstrates the sophisticated application of kasuri ikat techniques to create a bold geometric composition centered around yabane (arrow feather) motif, representing protection, progress, and the ability to ward off evil influences. 1920-1940, Japan
This kimono demonstrates the sophisticated application of kasuri ikat techniques to create a bold geometric composition centered around yabane (arrow feather) motifs, a design that bridges traditional Japanese symbolism with the modernist aesthetic sensibilities of the interwar period. The striking color palette of deep teal, coral red, and pale yellow creates a visual dynamism that reflects the era's embrace of more adventurous chromatic combinations, while the precise execution of the kasuri resist-dyeing process showcases the technical mastery required to achieve such sharp geometric forms through this traditionally organic technique. The yabane motif itself carries powerful symbolic significance in Japanese culture, representing protection, progress, and the ability to ward off evil influences - making it particularly appropriate for formal wear during a period of rapid social and cultural transformation. The arrow feathers are ingeniously enhanced with vertical stripe patterns at their centers, creating a sophisticated play between the directional thrust of the arrows and the stabilizing rhythm of the stripes. This design strategy demonstrates the period's fascination with geometric abstraction while maintaining connection to meaningful traditional symbols, reflecting Japan's complex negotiation between cultural heritage and modernization. The detail images reveal the remarkable precision of the kasuri technique, where individual threads were resist-dyed before weaving to create these crisp geometric patterns. The subtle variations in color saturation and the slight irregularities inherent to the hand-controlled process add visual texture that prevents the bold geometric design from appearing mechanically rigid. This kimono exemplifies the innovative spirit of Japanese textile design during the early 20th century, when traditional craft techniques were pushed to new expressive limits.
September 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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"Usogui" creator Toshio Sako will start a new Underground Boxing Revenge Manga Series titled "Geni Kasuri" in Weekly Young Jump issue 10/2025 out Feb 6!
January 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Honba Amami Oshima Tsumugi, a Japanese silk textile with 1,300 years of history, meets Space Invaders pixel art — woven into the fabric by young artisans from Amami Island using the traditional kasuri technique, where a single misaligned thread renders the entire piece unusable.
A dark grey silk kimono displayed on a rack, featuring Space Invaders characters set within the bold diamond lattice of the Tatsugō-gara kasuri weave. ©TAITO CORPORATION / Honba Amami Oshima Tsumugi NEXT Project Close-up of Oshima Tsumugi fabric in black and white, featuring the Tatsugō-gara kasuri weave with Space Invaders characters integrated into the diamond lattice design. ©TAITO CORPORATION / Honba Amami Oshima Tsumugi NEXT Project A white silk kimono displayed on a rack, patterned with repeating Space Invaders characters across the Akinabara kasuri weave. ©TAITO CORPORATION / Honba Amami Oshima Tsumugi NEXT Project Close-up of the Akinabara pattern Oshima Tsumugi fabric design, showing Space Invaders pixel art characters emerging from a fine traditional kasuri weave on a white ground. ©TAITO CORPORATION / Honba Amami Oshima Tsumugi NEXT Project
March 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Shiro-gasuri/白絣（White Japanese Ikat）

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Kasuri (絣)—known internationally as Japanese ikat—is a traditional textile technique, and one variation, shiro-gasuri (白絣, white kasuri), features patterns on a white ground rendered in indigo or brown threads.
December 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Setsuko Hara in the Japanese film “No Regrets for Our Youth”. She is wearing a bold kasuri (ikat) kimono.
October 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Kimono, Late Taisho (1912–26) /early Showa period (1926–89), 1920s-1930s, Japan

Silk, stencil-printed warp and weft (heiyo kasuri) plain weave; lined with cotton, plain weave
155 x 127 cm (61 x 50 in.)

Louise Lutz Endowment, 1997.641. Art Institute of Chicago.
A vertical studio photograph showcases a spectacular Japanese kimono dating from the late Taisho to the early Showa period, around the 1920s to 1930s. This garment stands as a magnificent example of interwar meisen textile art, where traditional plain-weave silk was transformed by a highly sophisticated stencil-printed warp and weft technique known as heiyō kasuri. The composition presents the kimono fully extended on a display stand against a stark black background, emphasizing its iconic T-shape silhouette and allowing the dynamic, continuous flow of its avant-garde surface design to take center stage. The entire surface of the garment is treated as a unified canvas for a bold, non-figurative geometric pattern that perfectly mirrors the global rise of Cubism, Futurism, and Art Deco design during the early 20th century. Rather than relying on classical botanical or seasonal motifs, the textile features a complex, interlocking arrangement of sharp angles, overlapping triangles, fractured polygons, and sweeping, sickle-like curves. The design boasts a highly energetic and sophisticated color palette dominated by vibrant crimson red, deep charcoal black, and crisp off-white, brilliantly punctuated by accents of golden mustard yellow and muted grey gradients. The intricate kasuri technique creates slightly blurred, vibrating edges along the boundaries of each color field, lending a soft, optical movement to the hard-edged geometries.
July 4, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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Sorry, I meant to write Haebaru Kasuri kimono*
January 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Block 5 for my The Shape of Japan quilt is this "Kasuri Cross". Kasuri is a Japanese ikat weaving technique, and these crosses appear in lots of woven fabrics.
Block designs all by Kumiko Fujita.
#quiltsky
May 8, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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This silk summer kimono features striking red and blue hashtag motifs woven using the warp kasuri technique. 1930s, Japan
June 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Indigo Kasuri Kimono Late Edo period #japanblue #aizome #kimono #kasuri
September 5, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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two young sisters participating in the Chagu Chagu Umakko festival in Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The girls are dressed in traditional festival attire, featuring dark indigo kasuri (ikat-patterned) robes adorned with white geometric motifs. Photography by Takero Kawabata
Sisters at the Chagu Chagu Umakko Festival This heartwarming photograph captures two young sisters participating in the Chagu Chagu Umakko festival in Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture. The girls are dressed in traditional festival attire, featuring dark indigo kasuri (ikat-patterned) robes adorned with white geometric motifs, accented by bright yellow and red obi sashes. Their most distinctive accessories are the large, crescent-shaped woven straw hats, decorated with playful pink bows and red pom-poms. Beneath their hats, they wear blue-and-white polka-dot tenugui cloths tied under their chins with red ribbons. The sisters are leaning toward each other with gentle smiles, their youthful faces radiating the festive spirit of this historic celebration of horses and rural life.
February 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Foi revelada a primeira imagem de "Geni Kasuri", novo mangá de Toshio Sako (Batuque, Usogui).

O mangá de boxe começa a ser publicado na Weekly Young Jump no dia 6 de fevereiro.
January 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Baby photo. About 1910’s, Japan. Image via softypapa of Flickr. beneath her bib-collar the infant wears a kasuri cotton kimono
September 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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These artisans do kurume kasuri, tie-dying the yarn before weaving to make precise and beautiful patterns where undyed warp and weft meet
wandrme.paxex.aero Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · Nov 28
Kumano is a small town, about an hour from Fukuoka, that has a significant community of indigo artisans. With a bit of luck and planning you can visit a studio and even dye your own cloth.

Another incredible day here with @linneaharts.bsky.social. 🤩
#wandrJP
November 28, 2023 at 3:10 AM
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Jackfruit and green lentil curry with kasuri methi leaves.
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December 24, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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pleased to announce that butter turkey works
a skillet filled with homemade butter chicken with turkey instead of chicken. a small pool of butter is forming on the top beside a sprinkle of fresh kasuri methi.
January 15, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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This early 20th-century silk kimono features a dynamic interplay of the yabane (arrow feather) pattern rendered in striking kasuri ikat technique. Taisho period (1912-1926), Japan
The composition transforms the classical arrow motif into an almost Art Deco-inspired design vocabulary, with sharp angular forms creating a sense of movement and energy that anticipates the geometric abstractions that would define modernist design movements. The dramatic contrast between deep black and vibrant blue creates an optical intensity that makes the surface appear to vibrate, demonstrating how traditional Japanese pattern-making could evolve to embrace contemporary visual sensibilities while maintaining its essential character. The kasuri technique, visible in the detail shot's subtle gradations and blurred edges where colors meet, adds a distinctly Japanese craftsmanship signature to what might otherwise appear as purely geometric abstraction. This ikat-dyeing process, where threads are resist-dyed before weaving, creates the characteristic soft transitions and slight irregularities that distinguish handcraft from mechanical production. The yabane pattern itself carries symbolic weight as a protective motif traditionally associated with driving away evil influences, making it particularly appropriate for formal wear, while its angular geometry resonates with the period's fascination with speed, progress, and technological advancement. The bold scale and dramatic color relationships reflect the confidence of the Taisho period's cultural experimentation, when Japan was actively synthesizing Western influences with traditional arts.
September 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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Summer Kimono, Taishō Period, 1911-1927, Japan

Silk, plain weave, hand-tied warp and weft kasuri

Source: Taishō Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco
June 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Summer Kimono, Taishō Period, 1911-1927, Japan

Silk, plain weave, hand-tied warp and weft kasuri

Source: Taishō Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco
May 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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GF 5/100, Kasuri!

Some call her the worst GF, & revisiting her first appearance, I Get It. However, I'm a sucker for 'default is a cute cartoon but changes into a hot babe when they feel like it', dream gender right there

#Art #Fanart #100Kanojo
Kasuri, an aspiring scientist with a love for developing drugs in her two forms: the lively and excitable 8 year old, and the mature and voluptuous 18 year old form (her real age) Kasuri in her 8 year old form, excitedly cheering over her latest drug development Kasuri in her 18 year old form, striking a pose as she gives a wink, aware of how hot she is
September 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Little red berries have started to form on the juzu-sango (Rivina humilis) ‘Kasuri’ ❤️

#gardening
July 23, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Japanese actress Ayako Wakao in ikat kimono. 1950s
Captured in a striking, high-contrast chiaroscuro studio portrait from the 1950s, legendary Japanese screen icon Ayako Wakao (若尾文子) is depicted in a moment of quiet, poetic reverie. She wears a traditional kasuri (絣, ikat-dyed) kimono featuring bold geometric cruciforms and segmented bar motifs, layered over a crisp white under-collar (han-eri) that highlights the garment's refined structure. Dramatic, side-lit illumination catches her delicate profile as she thoughtfully cradles a small glass orb in her fingers, casting soft highlights across her hand and collarbone. Set against a deep, atmospheric background, the photograph beautifully bridges the rustic, graphic artistry of traditional Japanese folk textiles with the quiet sophistication and glamour of Golden Age Japanese cinema.
August 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Kimono details. uchinopotemayo
This vibrant compilation of textile swatches captures the dynamic graphic vocabulary of early-to-mid 20th-century Japanese casual dress, particularly the bold world of Meisen (銘仙) silk and stencil-dyed hogushi-ori textiles. Flourishing during the Taishō (1912–1926) and early Shōwa eras, Meisen revolutionized women's daily fashion by marrying historic ikat (kasuri) techniques with modern industrial stencil-dyeing. The resulting silk fabrics offered accessible, durable luxury characterized by electric colors and striking geometric motifs that effortlessly bridged traditional Japanese design with Western Art Deco, Constructivism, and mid-century optical art. Across the grid, classical motif traditions are playfully reinterpreted through a modern lens. The top-left swatch features a dramatically scaled arrow-feather motif (yabane or yagashuri)—a classic symbol of protection and steadfastness—rendered in sharp, high-contrast yellow, black, and red stripes. In contrast, the central swatch explodes with looping, ribbon-like calligraphic tendrils swirled across a crimson field, perfectly embodying the expressive, fluid dynamism of the "Taishō Roman" aesthetic. Elsewhere, traditional windowpane checks (kōshi, bottom-left) and undulating steam-line columns (tatewaku, bottom-right) are stripped down to their pure geometric essentials, while the center-right panel presents an abstract, mid-century counter-change of circles and grid squares. The brilliant visual impact of these patterns was made possible by the introduction of synthetic aniline dyes, which allowed major textile centers like Chichibu, Isesaki, and Ashikaga to achieve unprecedented chromatic intensity. From the saturated magenta and navy waves to the dense chartreuse multi-stripes (shima, bottom-center) and playful polka dots (mizutama), these swatches highlight how Japanese weavers embraced industrial chemical dyes to democratize fashion.
August 12, 2026 at 8:24 AM