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The plant patterns on women's kimonos of the Taisho period are a further advancement of the graphic expression of plants that sprouted in the late Meiji period, and it can be pointed out that the stylistic botanical expressions up to the middle of the Meiji period have almost disappeared. Many represent a combination of three or more plants, especially flowers. The combination of plants and flowers is classified into (1) combining traditional plant motifs from the Edo period to the Meiji era, (2) combining Western flowers with these, and (3) combining only Western flowers.Even in the group (1), which inherits the tradition of the types of plants that are used as motifs, the mainstream form of plant expression is expressed in a botanical encyclopedia-style graphic expression. In addition, among traditional plants, there are kimonos that combine auspicious plants such as paulownia, peony, and chrysanthemum with also auspicious animals such as phoenixes, peacocks, and cranes, but these are all black or colored kimonos with five crests.In the group (2) that accompanies Japanese flowers with Western flowers, many Japanese flowers are accompanied by roses, indicating that roses were a symbol of Western flowers. The longing for roses of Japan people, which began in the latter half of the Meiji period, became familiar in the Taisho era, and the pattern of women's kimonos also reflected this situation, and in the group that combined only Western flowers in (3), not only dahlias, daffodils, chrysanthemums, and other plants appeared, but also patterns representing only roses. |
