Four black and green silk obi [sash] | Showa period, 20th century

Four black and green silk obi [sash] 

Showa period, 20^th century

the sashes all in silk weave, decorated in embroidery and gold threads, variously depicting red-capped cranes in flight before pine, archaic designs, bamboo and young bamboo grass (sasa) among stylised pine canopies