Under the influence of Chinese culture, many kinds of weaving technology have been imported to Japan. The time capsule contains two pieces of sash cloth woven by Heizo Tatsumura, who studies the ancient woven cloth of Kyoto, which is a product of this tradition.The Kamakura Period Festival bunshiki, which shows festival participants walking along a wide city street in the autumn, was woven using approximately 120 colors. The weaver wove only about 3 centimeters per day, and that it took about 100 days to complete the piece.The higure-fumi gold and silver flecked brocade is one woven to reproduce the pattern of a gold and silver flecked brocade which an Edo Period Shogun gazed upon insatiably.It took about forty days to make this piece.

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