Woodcut, Print

Patterned fabrics flutter int the wind outside a draper´s selling famous tie-dyed fabrics from Arimatsu in the Nagoya district. Textile production was a very important part of the Edo period´s commercial prosperity. Fabrics from Arimatsu, Arimatsu shibori, were widely known and the kind of thing one would purchase if visiting those parts. Tie-dye (shiborizome) is a collective term for various reservage patterning techinques which came to Japan from the west (India, probably) by way of China, throught trade on the Silk Road. Station 41 Narumi. Shop with Famour Arimatsu Tie-dyed Cloth (Narumi, meisan Arimatsu shibori mise), from the series Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue), also known as the Vertical Tokaidō. First edition from 1855. Multicolour woodblock print (nishiki-e), aiban format. (Japan. Föremål och bilder, s. 47)