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Swallowtail Butterfly Crest (Ageha-no-chō-mon / Ise Taira Seki) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Swallowtail Butterfly Crest (Ageha-no-chō-mon / Ise Taira Seki) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A displayed swallowtail butterfly with indented hindwings, named from Kenmon’s Ise Taira Seki ageha plate.

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Tachibana Citrus Crest (Yakushiji Tachibana-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Tachibana Citrus Crest (Yakushiji Tachibana-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of the tachibana citrus: facing blossom with flanking leaves, fruit present only if the named cut includes it.

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Three-Scale Crest (Mitsu-Uroko-mon / Hōjō 1272 Flag Type) — Documented Kamon Motif, Kamakura–Edo preview
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Three-Scale Crest (Mitsu-Uroko-mon / Hōjō 1272 Flag Type) — Documented Kamon Motif, Kamakura–Edo

Three triangular charges conventionally called scales (uroko), specified as the Hōjō tokusō mark on the Bun’ei 9 (1272) kasho-senki ship-flag.

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Triple Hexagon Crest (Mitsu-mori Kikkō-mon / Fukayabe) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Triple Hexagon Crest (Mitsu-mori Kikkō-mon / Fukayabe) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Three piled hexagonal plates (mitsu-mori kikkō), the Kenmon type for Nikaidō Fukayabe.

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Two-Bar Crest (Futatsu-Hikiryō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Two-Bar Crest (Futatsu-Hikiryō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

Two parallel bars (futatsu-hikiryō), with bar count defining the type.

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Two-Leaf Asarum Crest (Futaba-Aoi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Two-Leaf Asarum Crest (Futaba-Aoi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of two heart-shaped leaves of Asarum caulescens (futaba-aoi), not garden hollyhock.

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Upright Arrowhead-Plant Crest (Tachi-Omodaka-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Upright Arrowhead-Plant Crest (Tachi-Omodaka-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of Sagittaria trifolia: three-pointed arrowhead leaves on an upright (tachi) plant, not an embracing daki pair and not a water ground.

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Valknut preview
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Valknut

Three interlocking triangles form an ancient Scandinavian motif whose exact meaning is unknown; modern interpretation often links it with Odin, death, warrior memory, and the afterlife, but none is securely attested.

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Washer Crest (Kuginuki-mon / Square-Pierced-Round) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Washer Crest (Kuginuki-mon / Square-Pierced-Round) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A square plate pierced by a round hole (座金 / washer), not a pictorial carpenter’s bar.

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Woodsorrel Trefoil Crest (Katabami-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo preview
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Woodsorrel Trefoil Crest (Katabami-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo

A plant-type mark of three notched Oxalis leaflets (katabami / 酢漿草), the notch distinguishing them from smooth Asarum aoi hearts.

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Yggdrasil preview
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Yggdrasil

Yggdrasil is the world tree of medieval Norse cosmology, a vast living structure around which gods, beings, roots, and realms are organised. Modern symbolism draws from that image to express connection, endurance, ancestry, and balance.

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Agnus Dei Seal preview
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Agnus Dei Seal

The haloed Lamb of God, often carrying a cross-staff or banner, was a familiar medieval image of Christ whose apparent gentleness carried powerful ideas of sacrifice and redemption.

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Alembic Mark preview
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Alembic Mark

A contemporary mark inspired by the alembic, the distillation head used to guide vapour into a receiver and a fitting symbol for refinement, knowledge and transformation.

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Medieval · documented field

Alpha and Omega Mark preview
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Alpha and Omega Mark

Alpha and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, became a Christian declaration of Christ as beginning and end and remained a powerful motif in medieval art.

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Andean Stepped Cross Motif preview
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Andean Stepped Cross Motif

This stepped-cross motif comes from a painted Andean cotton textile, tentatively attributed to Chimu culture, where it appears alongside coiled serpent forms.

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Animal Identified as a Lion preview
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Animal Identified as a Lion

Among the animals carved on the ninth-century Ulbster Stone in Caithness is a creature identified in the heritage record as a lion. The identification is deliberately qualified, and neither the animal's precise identity nor its Pictish significance is completely secure.

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Arch or Horseshoe Sign preview
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Arch or Horseshoe Sign

A narrow weathered arch-shaped mark appears beside a human figure on the seventh-century Newton of Collessie Standing Stone in Fife. Known as the Arch or Horseshoe Sign, its name describes resemblance rather than a securely identified object.

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Basilisk Crown Mark preview
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Basilisk Crown Mark

Medieval writers called the basilisk the king of serpents, making the crown more than decorative shorthand. This modern mark turns that lethal reputation into an emblem of dangerous authority, vigilance and power that demands distance.

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Medieval · documented field

Basilisk Eye Seal preview
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Basilisk Eye Seal

Basilisk stories made danger almost impossible to approach safely: sight, breath or mere proximity could become lethal. This eye-centred seal turns that reputation into a modern emblem of vigilance, fear and dangerous power recognised before it strikes.

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Bestiary Phoenix preview
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Bestiary Phoenix

The phoenix entered medieval bestiaries as a legendary bird consumed and renewed through death, becoming a vivid Christian image of resurrection, rebirth and hope.

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Boar preview
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Boar

The pacing boar carved on the Knocknagael Boar Stone near Inverness is one of the Pictish tradition's most recognisable animal images, distinguished by its bristled back and stylised body ornament. Its original significance remains unknown.

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Medieval · documented field

Bull preview
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Bull

The complete bull known as Burghead 3 is one of six surviving Pictish bull-carved blocks associated with Burghead in Moray. The animal is securely identifiable, but the purpose of the repeated bull imagery and its significance remain unresolved.

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Calcination Wheel preview
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Calcination Wheel

A modern process wheel inspired by calcination, the alchemical operation of heating and reducing material, interpreted here through themes of trial, purification, resilience and renewal.

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Medieval · documented field

Cauldron Scene Motif preview
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Cauldron Scene Motif

A large vessel forms the centre of an unusual carved scene on the probably eighth-century Glamis 2 cross-slab in Angus. Often described as a cauldron, it appears in relation to adjacent figures, but the scene's narrative and significance remain unknown.

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