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Geta sandals with softwood soles, black velvet straps, tin strap fasteners, and stamped metal knot covers. The underside of the right sandal (part b) bears a stamped paper label.
Sections of thin bamboo laced into a long, conical basket with twined cord Attached around the inside of the open end of the conical basket are short bamboo sections laced together so that they angle towards the centre of the cone; the short segments are angled in such a way that they create a small passage allowing material into the basket, but not out.
Model canoe (a) with a miniature bailer, a seat that has come loose (b), and a thwart with mast hole (c).
A grass mat in the process of being woven on a small wooden loom with fibre warp.
Working wooden model of the older type of loom, the gii-bata. The loom is set up for use, strung with black and white thread in alternating stripes. Entire loom is mounted on a rectangular plywood base.
Large hanging with gold designs on green ground. The designs include a cross within a circle in gold, surrounded by an overall floral motif in gold. There are tabs for hanging sewn to the top edge. The back lining is brown linen with the Tachi Omodaka crest repeated five times. The crest has a water plant (?) within a circle in black. There are six pairs of ties near the back bottom edge.
Long grass cape. Around the neck the grass is woven in a light and dark checkered pattern. The rest of the grass is woven and knotted to form two main layers of thick short overlapping fringes.There are two sets of braided ties; around the neck and middle.
Deep blue kimono (着物) with wide, short sleeves and centre opening. The lower half of the kimono is embroidered with cherry blossoms, pine trees and bamboo in gold, white and pink on a deep blue ground. The upper half has a single gold flower on either side of the opening. The inside lining is red and padded with cotton known as fuki (袘). It has five family crests or kamon (家紋) in the shape of sekichiku flowers (China pink/Dianthus chinensis) known as sekichiku (石竹).
Man's haori (羽織) or jacket/overcoat with small check pattern paired with kimono (N2.213 b). The neck and centre opening are edged with a wide patterned band. The sleeves are short with hanging panels and an opening under the arms. The pattern has small white squares on brown ground. The patterned inner lining known as gaku’ura (額裏) is light brown silk with a river scene in black and covers only the upper part of the haori.
Gold streaks and blue bamboo-like leaves on black background. End of sash at beginning of roll is a seam. The other end has Two sets of parallel gold bands and a plain black seamed edge. One edge running the length of sash is seamed, the opposite edge is folded.