Sarasa textile, with red ground

"Sarasa" cloths are trade textiles from southeastern coastal India which were imported from India to Japan in the Edo period and had many trade routes through which it arrived there. Dutch, French and English records use the term "sarasa" often and associate it with cotton cloth with floral designs which are mordant and resist dyed.

A rectangular sarasa or chintz panel decorated on a red ground with motifs of flowers, buds and berries, rendered in red and indigo. The ends are in a plain Indigo border.