Mini Message Card - Moonlit Night
ミニカード 月夜
£7.00 per item
A high-quality woodblock printed card with an envelope from Kyoto.
This message card was hand-printed by skilled craftspeople using woodblocks. This method of printing was adopted in Japan during the Edo-period (1603-1868 CE) for printing books and creating decorations, produced on both paper and canvas. To create these cards, reliefs of an original design are carved by hand into wooden blocks, with one block for each colour involved.
This card features a night lit by the full moon, illuminating the pages of a book from which a rabbit is jumping. Rabbits and the full moon are often associated with each other as – according to Japanese folklore – there are rabbits living on the moon making mochi, rice cakes.
Size: approx. L9.5 cm x W6 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.
