Japanese Mountain Print 'Akigo' Metal and a square woven pad

and a square woven pad is one of its most useful forms

Each is a flat-top bucket shape with a wide brim

It's the choice when you want the wave motif to actually stand out

The Japanese Men's Yukata 'Kurayoshi' is built from exactly that colour

That marbled blue-and-white has a hand-dyed

Japanese Mountain Print 'Akigo' Metal and a square woven padThe poster reproducing Hokusai's cushion pine at Aoyama This poster reproduces Cushion Pine at Aoyama (Aoyama Enza no matsu) from Hokusai's series Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji. A great rounded pine, trained flat like a cushion, dominates the foreground; visitors gather by a stone lantern on a path, and beyond the dark mass of the tree the blue cone of Mount Fuji rises across the water. The print plays the unusual, sprawling shape of the famous pine