#hikeshibanten

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Commoner's firefighting jacket (hikeshibanten) Japan, 19th c. Cotton cloth with indigo dye (sashiko & tsutsugaki), 38 1/2 x 50 in. (97.79 x 127 cm) Seattle Art Museum 2001.414 "The oversized spider hovering over the go board alludes to Tsuchigumo ('Earth Spider'), the Noh drama that tells the story of the warrior Minamoto Yorimitsu fighting off the monstrous earth spider, who is disguised as a monk."

Read more about the history and iconography of this cool coat here:

https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/10/firefighting-jacket/

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

一件 19 世紀的日本消防員外套，上面裝飾著一隻盤旋在廢棄圍棋棋盤上的蜘蛛。 A 19th century Japanese Firemen’s coat decorated with a spider hovering over an abandoned Go board.

-from "Museum Of Artifacts"history blog-

an early-nineteenth-century firefighter’s coat, called hikeshibanten, since it features a spooky spider. Made in the Edo period in Japan, these firefighter’s coats were reversible, and this design is actually on the interior of the jacket, only visible when the jacket has been turned inside out. A large spider—with an endearing face—looms over the shoulder of the jacket, where it hovers menacingly over an abandoned go board (Pacific Northwesterners may have unnerving flashbacks to the giant house spiders that descend on Seattle in the autumn). The range of tonalities centers on indigo, white, black, and greyish-brown, with red accents on the fan; this color palette visually unites the work, creating parallels between the spider’s eyes and the go pieces.

The method of dyeing used, tsutsugaki, is a type of resist dyeing. The design was drawn on the cotton using rice paste, and these initial lines are visible now as the lightest areas of the design. The spider and the go board were dyed their respective colors, and covered with more rice paste to block any other dye from entering the area. Then the fabric was dipped into indigo multiple times, dried, soaked in hot water again, and the rice paste was scraped off to reveal the layering of colors; this whole process could take 20 days.

The scene is from the story of the warrior-hero Minamoto no Yorimitsu (948–1021) who, once when sick, was visited by an evil priest in the guise of a giant spider. Yorimitsu saw through the disguise and attacked the spider priest, and his four attendants (who were playing a game of Go while guarding him) leapt up to track the intruder back to his den.

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Japanese hikeshibanten jacket depicting spider and go board, 19th Century, Seattle Art Museum

[cosmicanger]

Japanese hikeshibanten jacket

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Fireman's Coat (Hikeshibanten).

Place of origin: Japan

Period: Edo Period (1615-1868)

Date: 19th century

Medium: Painted cotton plain weave with cotton darning stitching (sashiko).

~ From the source: The decoration on the inside of this fireman's coat is inspired by the story of Momotaro, a boy born from a peach who set out to vanquish the ogres living in the Japanese countryside.

[seattleartmuseum]

Spooky spiders! 🕷🕸 On Halloween our thoughts turn to the weird and witchy, so we're highlighting this early-nineteenth-century firefighter’s coat on #SAMBlog as #SAMObjectOfTheWeek. 🔥Learn more 👉 #LinkInProfile — #FiremansCoat #JapaneseArt #TextileArt #Hikeshibanten [🎨: "Commoner's Firefighting Jacket (hikeshibanten)", Japanese. bit.ly/SAMArtSpider] via Instagram http://ift.tt/2h1URdh

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[WDYWT] hikeshibanten (Translator's note: pls no appropriate) via https://ift.tt/2H5QkRU

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Today's Haul with @naritabby ✌️✌️#maekake #indigo #hikeshibanten

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BTWXTBA | Hikeshibanten Beach Vest

BTWXTBA | Hikeshibanten Beach Vest

We have been hard at work thinking up new ideas. We have changed direction slightly, and Narita-san had a great idea of making beach vests out of various fabrics.

This first one we have come up with is made from a hikeshibanten or “firefighter jacket”. These are worn by volunteer firefighters as a durable work over-jacket. They are usually reinforced with sashikoto give them durability. They are…

[bandannawanderings]

Another Hikeshibanten remake. This one has a bit different scheme. Killer.

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"Hikeshibanten" Japanese Firefighter Hanten reused on a trucker jacket. So going to do this.