oshi-e　押絵

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Fabric pictures. Representations of figures, birds, animals, flowers, landscapes or characters of a poem that are cut out of pieces of thick paper. These forms are then covered with pieces of fabric such as gold brocade (*kinran 金襴), damask (*donsu 緞子), gauze silk (sha 紗), twill cloth (*aya 綾), crepe (chirimen 縮緬), or plain weave silk (heiken or hiraginu 平絹). The fabric-covered shapes are pasted onto a thin board of cardboard to form a picture. This technique was used for the letters of the poems in the "100 Poets" (*Hyakunin Isshu 百人一首). For the decoration of battledores (hago-ita 羽子板), cotton is often added to pad the space beneath the forms to give a three-dimensional effect. Oshi-e were called 'brocade pictures' (*nishiki-e 錦絵) in Osaka.

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