Historical Context
Editorially reviewedKenmon Shokamon (c. 1467–1470) is an album of drawings whose motif type-names are later labels. It already treats sagari-fuji compounds as distinct from fuji-tomoe. Court houses such as Kujō, Nijō, and Ichijō using sagari-fuji is later practice, not a Heian-period Fujiwara-name kamon. Kasuga-taisha presents its sagari-fuji as a shrine crest that became fixed over time, not as a warrior-house jōmon.
Provenance: Kenmon Shokamon drawings include sagari-fuji compounds (sagari-fuji with sankai-matsu; sagari-fuji with ka-ji for Itami and Yusa), already separated from mitsu-fuji-tomoe plates. Kasuga-taisha’s own account treats shrine sagari-fuji as gradually fixed, not as a clan kamon. Court-house sagari-fuji is later documented usage.
Research status: reviewed · reviewed 31/08/2026
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2 referencesKenmon Shokamon (見聞諸家紋)
Kenmon Shokamon (見聞諸家紋; also called Higashiyama-dono Gomonchō), c. 1467–1470. Muromachi album of drawings of warrior-house marks. Motif type-names on the drawings are later catalogue labels, not Muromachi captions written with the original plates.
Supports: Supports sagari-fuji compounds already drawn as a class separate from left/right mitsu-fuji-tomoe and Kodera’s tachibana-fuji-tomoe, including sagari-fuji with sankai-matsu and sagari-fuji with ka-ji for Itami and Yusa.
Kasuga-taisha account of sagari-fuji
Kasuga-taisha’s own description of its sagari-fuji shrine crest as gradually fixed, rather than as an original clan kamon.
Supports: Supports the hedge that Kasuga sagari-fuji is a shrine crest the shrine itself treats as becoming fixed over time, and must not be upgraded to a warrior-house kamon.
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Drooping Wisteria Crest (Sagari-Fuji-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo
A plant-type mark of drooping wisteria racemes with palmate leaves (sagari-fuji), not upturned agari-fuji.
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