Goshuin Notebook
正倉院文様 御朱印帳
A ‘stamp’ book with a decorative cover featuring patterns from ancient Japanese treasures.
Called goshuinchō in Japanese, these ‘stamp’ books are used to collect stamps and other details in calligraphy by visitors to Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan to serve as proof of pilgrimage.
This book is also ideal for creating memos or for use as a scrapbook. The covers are decorated with recreations of age-old patterns which adorn treasures stored in the Shōsōin Repository – a storehouse built around 756-759 CE in the temple complex of Tōdai-ji, Nara.
Size: L18.2 cm x W12.2 cm x H1.5 cm
Kansai
The Kansai region includes the second-most populated metropolitan area in Japan with its largest city Osaka. Kyoto and Nara, two of Japan’s former capital cities, are home to important temples and shrines and strongholds of intangible cultural heritage, such as the Kyoto textile weaving skills of Nishijin.
