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Pine-Bark Lozenge Crest (Matsukawa-Bishi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Historical Context

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Kenmon Shokamon (見聞諸家紋, c. 1467–1470) is a Muromachi album of warrior-house drawings. The Takeda plate labelled matsukawa-bishi is the notched pine-bark lozenge; karahana-bishi and sankai-bishi are separate drawings in the same album. Later printed Takeda-bishi and the four-part yotsu-wari-bishi are different types and must not be substituted.

Provenance: Kenmon Shokamon Takeda lozenge type later labelled matsukawa-bishi, already separated there from karahana-bishi (Takeda Harunobu plate), sankai-bishi (Ogasawara), and yotsu-wari-bishi.

Research status: reviewed · reviewed 31/08/2026

Sources

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  1. 見聞諸家紋 (Kenmon Shokamon)

    見聞諸家紋, c. 1467–1470 (also 東山殿御紋帳). Muromachi album of warrior-house drawings; type-names on surviving copies are later labels, not original Muromachi captions. (National Diet Library (later transcript))

    Supports: Supports matsukawa-bishi as the Kenmon Takeda lozenge type, already separated from karahana-bishi (Takeda Harunobu plate), sankai-bishi (Ogasawara), yotsu-wari-bishi, and hanabishi. Does not license substituting the later printed Takeda-bishi or a four-part split.

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Pine-Bark Lozenge Crest (Matsukawa-Bishi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A notched pine-bark lozenge (matsukawa-bishi), the Kenmon Takeda lozenge type.

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