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Lit. small pattern. A small-scale repeated pattern usually in a single color against a colored ground. Originally used primarily in dyeing leather and bast fibers, and later on silk, komon are created by applying a rice-paste resist liquid through a paper stencil, then dyeing the cloth. The motif sizes vary from pin-point dots to real-size depictions of blossoms. Late Muromachi paintings show that komon studios flourished by that time, with Shirako ”’Žq in Ise ˆΙ¨, and Jike Ž›‰Ζ in Suzuka —ιŽ­ producing komon stencils. Later Edo became a center of production, producing the same ŽL (sharkskin) komon, used for the samurais Ž˜ ceremonial kamishimo εί garment. Early Edo period komon on silk often feature a simple pattern of three to seven dots in white reserve on blue. Komon designs were also used for informal and semiformal women's kimono ’…•¨. The fabric was so popular in the Tokugawa capital that it was called edo komon ]ŒΛ¬–δ.
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