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February 29, 2004
Bishamon Pattern II
Here is a second traditional Bishamon pattern. Except what it shares with the Bishamon-kikko pattern, I don’t know much of the history of this pattern.
This pattern, again like the Bishamon-kikko pattern, is used on all forms of clothing and can be found in many other forms of traditional art in Japan. It appears in sashiko, shibori and katazome textile decorations.
This time around I have the images in 60×60 pixel and 40×40 pixel resolutions—both indigo backed and transparent. Pick your poison. Again the files are public domain, although I sure wouldn’t mind a link and attribution by way of a nod if you do use them. As for why the deep indigo color, it is simply because that is the traditional color of much of the shibori dying.
- bishamon on indigo
(20×20 pixels)
- bishamon with transparent background
(20×20 pixel)
- bishamon on indigo
(40×40 pixels)
- bishamon with transparent background
(40×40 pixel)
- bishamon with indigo background
(60×60 pixel)
- bishamon with transparent background
(60×60 pixel)
If some of the images appear blank—just a thin line frame around nothing—then your browser (most likely IE) has an issue displaying transparent .png files. The image is there, right click on the “empty” box and “Save Picture As” or “Save Target As”.