Japanese Wooden Bento Box Lunch Box Yabane Japanese traditional design Made in Japan … (Blue)

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Japanese traditional design called "YABANE" Yabane represents the fletching on an arrow, although sometimes the shaft is also depicted. Yabane or yagasuri patterns have been popular in Japan since the Heian era. Originally yabane was popular as a motif on men s clothing due to its close association with kyudo, Japanese archery, but has always been popular with women as well. During the Edo era small scale kasuri yabane was popular as servants livery. [1] By the Meiji era it had become highly associated with the "Meiji schoolgirl" look- a yabane komon worn under hakama with a modern hairstyle held back with a ribbon. Yabane today are almost exclusively found on women s items. The only places you may still see them on men s items are small scale on the hanao of geta or as a large scale motif on a juban, often containing other motifs within the outline.