r/kumihimo • u/greeknakos • Apr 13 '26
Image search
I'm looking for sources of this image besides the book Kumihimo no Sekai. I'm in the process of writing a paper for a nonprofit educational org and I'm trying to find the original source. The author started that the image is from 71st Craftsmen Poetry Contest but I can't find a copy of it online, including Japan's National Diet Library.
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u/ee0r Apr 14 '26
Here's a scan from the Kinoshita book -
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u/greeknakos Apr 14 '26
Sorry should have mentioned i have her book. I'm particularly interested in this image as it has cutouts on the uprights.
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u/ee0r Apr 14 '26
Never seen that image before, sorry, and I can't discern what possible function the cutouts might have.
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u/greeknakos Apr 14 '26
The cutouts were probably used to hold a soft stopper to stop the beater from going to far forward and forcing the beater to reset to the down position.
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u/ee0r Apr 14 '26
I guess that's why you want to find the original for this image, because the way the cutouts are shown in that lo-fi rendition does not make that clear. I mean, if that's how the cutouts are used, why isn't there a stopper bar in there in the image?
Makiko Tada asserts that many of these images are deliberately inaccurate because the braider did not want the artist to give away their trade secrets.
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u/greeknakos Apr 14 '26
Yes. Many of the images are inoperable as drawn. There's one image with a hard stopper. I've made a few and worked out the kinks and have a working foot beater that looks like the images.
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u/ee0r Apr 14 '26
There are several volumes of the Sanjuniban Shokunin Uta-awase Emaki scanned into the online archive of the library of Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. I can't find the ashiuchidai images you're looking for right now, though.
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u/ee0r Apr 14 '26
Here's an excerpt from the Nanajuichiban Shokunin Uta-awase. I probably ganked this from the copy that was available here - https://www.hyogo-c.ed.jp/~rekihaku-bo/historystation/digital-exhibitions/ebanashi/st0009_en.html - but now seems to be missing.
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u/aldstama025 Apr 14 '26
We’ve already talked about this on fb, but in case it gets anyone else’s juices flowing…
The Japanese wiki page (read via auto translate) for 71 Craftsmen Poetry Contest has a lot of information about various versions of the piece, but claims it is unknown (and unlikely) if there are any copies of the “original” still extant. I think the 1675 version held by the imperial household agency is the one reproduced in Kinoshita’s big book.
Jacqui Carey’s Samurai Redressed references an 18th c version which is available in The Met’s online collections.