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Geometric Form · documented field
Ankh Gate
A contemporary gate-like emblem centred on the ancient Egyptian ankh, the hieroglyph for life and a recurring sign in ritual scenes, inscriptions, jewellery and amulets.
Geometric Form · documented field
Corner-Standing Four-Eyelet Crest (Sumitate-Yotsume-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo
Four hollow square or diamond eyelets set on the corner (sumitate-yotsume / 隅立て四つ目).
Geometric Form · documented field
Eight-Around-One Discs Crest (Kuyō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo
Nine discs in an 8-around-1 arrangement (kuyō), the Kenmon buke type.
Geometric Form · documented field
Left Three-Tomoe Crest (Hidari-Mitsudomoe-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo
Three comma-shaped whorls inside a circle, specified as left-rotating hidari-mitsudomoe, the Kenmon buke type.
Geometric Form · documented field
Lobed Mokko Outline Crest (Mokko-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo
A geometric outline-type of a four- to five-lobed rounded silhouette (木瓜 / mokko, also read goka).
Geometric Form · documented field
Ox-Carriage Wheel Crest (Genji-guruma) — Documented Kamon Motif, Edo
A frontal spoked ox-carriage wheel (hub, spokes, and felloe) used as an Edo named kamon (genji-guruma).
Geometric Form · documented field
Pine-Bark Lozenge Crest (Matsukawa-Bishi-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo
A notched pine-bark lozenge (matsukawa-bishi), the Kenmon Takeda lozenge type.
Geometric Form · documented field
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.
Geometric Form · documented field
Two-Bar Crest (Futatsu-Hikiryō-mon) — Documented Kamon Motif, Muromachi–Edo
Two parallel bars (futatsu-hikiryō), with bar count defining the type.
Geometric Form · documented field
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.
Geometric Form · documented field
Air Current Sign
Invisible until it moves something, air becomes visible here through sweeping current lines—a fitting image for direction, freedom, change and clear thought.
Geometric Form · documented field
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.