A purple silk Nagoya obi with big a beautiful, big, bold, gold design, printed in gold with gold, couched thread detailing
A Taiko-gara obi. Taiko-gara obis have a pattern only on the taiko (rear knot) part and centre front of the sash part. It's also called santsuu obi, which means "30% partially -patterned". The rest of the obi is plain.
Made and bought in Japan
A Nagoya obi. Nagoya obis often have the sash part already folded to half depth, with the knot section at full width, making them easier to put on. Some you fold yourself. This style was invented about 100 years ago and is less heavy than a more formal fukuro or maru obi. Nagoya are usually tied in a taiko musubi (square style knot, named after the Taiko bridge, at the opening of which a few geisha wore it as a new style, after which it became very popular and has remained so ever since), though they can be tied in other knots. Nagoya obis are less formal than a fukuro or maru obis but more formal than hanhaba obis
Obi should not be washed
Nagoya obi folding instructions on my blog, plus names of the parts of the obi, how to wear obi makura, obiage and obijime with your obi and a diagram with shapes and scale of the different obi types.
 
Condition:
Excellent

Measurements approximately:
Obi are one-size-fits-all items
Width 30cm & 15cm
Length 335 cm
 
 
 
 
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