Thanks to all that responded and replied in my last post on the 1960 Japanese Yukata Bolt and Sumo Card of Yokozuna Taiho. Equally as popular in the 1960s were baseball stars Sadaharu Oh and Shigeo Nagashima and they both promoted yukata companies and adorned several cards attached to these beautifully indigo-dyed fabric bolts. The bolts allowed the purchasers to make their own yukata patterns and sizes at home.....basically like buying fabric in bulk. This particular bolt made by Tokyo Yukata features a beautiful jagged herring bone pattern in dark, light, and pale blues although the card of Nagashima shows him wearing a more cross-hatch pattern.
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Awesome as usual.
ReplyDeleteThanks Fuji. These cloth bolts are really cool in person!
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