{"id":1577,"date":"2011-11-30T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2018-11-28T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T17:10:19","slug":"haori-with-crows-or-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonblossom.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/haori-with-crows-or-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Haori with crows or ravens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansai_gal sent me this in the box of amazing things that included the bunny geta<\/a> from the previous entry. She knows my tastes so well, I am totally smitten with it!<\/p>\n

On the surface it looks like a plain black three-crested formal haori, but it’s scattered with black urushi birds that appear to be crows or ravens. I suspect it’s also relatively old, it’s quite long (even on my tall frame), and the crests are larger than modern ones, but the sleeves are short, so either it’s from a pre-war transitional period, or the sleeves were cut short at some point. Either way, it’s a beautiful and unique piece that I look forward to wearing, possibly with my crow obi<\/a> (although now, comparing the birds, I think it’s more likely that the birds on the obi are indeed stylized cormorants, but I will continue to refer to it as crowbi because I am stubborn that way).<\/p>\n\n\t\t