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Jinbaori with mountain and
pine bark design
Eighteenth century
Wool
104 x 47 (41 x 1872)
Kunôzan Tóshógü Shrine, Shizuoka

• During the Edo period jinbaori such
as this were decorated in striking pat-
terns taken primarily from traditional
textile designs, but on a larger scale
to be recognizable and impressive 133
from a distance. This coat, with its
highly stylized black and white moun-
tain and pine-bark lozenge motif, is
said to have been owned by the sixth
shogun, Tokugawa lenobu, in office
from 1709 to 1713. VH

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Jinbaori with ship's sails

Eighteenth century
Wool and other textiles
3
85x100 (33Vax 39 /s)
Maeda Ikutokukai Foundation, Tokyo
Illustrated page 115

• The jinbaori seems to have origi-
nated in European surcoats, and many
6i young. Determined to alleviate the of the early coats were clearly not
Jinbaori with red and white stripes poor economic situation, he issued purely Japanese in design and form.
instructions to be frugal with food, This jinbaori surcoat is of white wool
Eighteenth/nineteenth century
drink, and clothing. He instituted a with the design of a European ship's
Wool and other textiles
silver currency in place of rice pay- sails on the back, waves at the bot-
3
IOIX55. 8 (39 / 4 X22) ment and a system of local rents and tom, and a sawtooth motif bordering
Eisei Bunko Foundation, Tokyo
taxes. The system proved unstable, the sleeves. The shapes were cut out of
however, and the economy was further the white cloth, and pieces of black,
• This garment was owned by Hoso- scarlet, yellow, and purple woolen
kawa Narishige (1755 -1835), the damaged by a fire that destroyed cloth were inlaid so that the whole
in Edo, forcing
domain's mansion
the
eighth lord of the Kumamoto domain him into debt. He retired at the age appears to be one piece with no visible
in Higo province. He was the second of fifty-six, and his son Narishige joins or stitches.
son of the fifth lord of the Uji domain, succeeded him. VH
Hosokawa Kobun. Kobun had been This jinbaori was worn by Maeda
adopted as the successor to the sev- Shigehiro, the eighth daimyo of the
enth lord of Kumamoto, Harutoshi, Maeda clan from 1729 to 1753.Through-
after Harutoshi's children all died out the Edo period the powerful Maeda
clan ruled over Kaga, Noto, and Etchü
provinces. Although they had been
supporters of, and were related to, the
rival Toyotomi family, they were a
mainstay to the peace of Tokugawa
Japan. They provided a model of a
Confucian-based bureaucracy that
had been promulgated by the daimyo
Maeda Tsunanori (1643 -1724). VH