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[tanuki-kimono]

Striking outfit perfect for New Year wishes, pairing a red/black kimono patterned with colorful arrows, with a regal looking hawke, its jesses swirling over a silver/black stripes background.

Arrows are popular auspicious pattern symbolizing “straight to luck” wishes. Worn around New Year season, this attire could also hint at decorations sold by Shinto shrines and called hamaya (lit. demon breaking arrow).

Hawks are usually a pattern linked to martial values (like fidelity, bravery, etc), but worn around New Year season, they would refer to the tradition of hatsuyume (first dream of the New Year).

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[thephotoregistry]

A woman in a straw raincoat, Tokamachi, Niigata, 1956

Hiroshi Hamaya

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[gacougnol]

Hiroshi Hamaya

Oiso beach, 1953

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[henk-heijmans]

Woman planting rice, Toyama Prefecture, 1955 - by Hiroshi Hamaya (1915 - 1999), Japanese

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[de-salva]

... untitled (Kayenta, Navajo, Arizona, 1967)

© Hiroshi Hamaya (濱谷浩)

#Hiroshi Hamaya #US Route 66 #Route 66

[nobrashfestivity]

Hiroshi Hamaya

Snow Land, 1956

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[thinkingimages]

Hiroshi Hamaya, from Yukiguni (Snow Land) (1950s)

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[joeinct]

Photo by Hiroshi Hamaya, 1953

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[circus-sonata]

Hiroshi Hamaya / 濱谷浩 Boys Singing a Song to Drive Noxious Birds Away, New Year's Event, Niigata, Japan, 1940 歌ってゆく鳥追い、新潟 From the book: Snow Land / 雪国

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[semioticapocalypse]

Hiroshi Hamaya. Ōiso beach. Kanagawa. Japan. 1953

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[wintercorrybriea]

hamaya alexis

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[tanuki-kimono]

Lively antique outfit, pairing a colorful tsuru (crane) kimono, with lustrous satin obi bearing decorated yabane (arrow fletching).

Arrows are popular auspicious pattern symbolizing “straight to luck” wishes. Worn around New Year season, this attire could also hint at decorations sold by Shinto shrines and called hamaya (lit. demon breaking arrow).

Hamaya can also be paired be the Lunar year animal. For 2023, you can hence find rabbits holding arrows like this one:

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[nununiverse]

Hiroshi Hamaya | Untitled, 1930

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[gacougnol]

Hiroshi Hamaya

Urumchi Hsinchiang

China 1956

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[riotclitshave]

Hiroshi Hamaya

Japanese, 1915–1999

"Snow Land", 1956

Niigata, Japan 🌨

Three snow country children make their way to a New Year's event, covered in straw capes for protection against the weather

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#hiroshi hamaya #photography #art #nature #nature photography #old photography

[de-salva]

... untitled (雪国/Yukiguni/Snow Country, 1950s)

© Hiroshi Hamaya (濱谷浩)

#Hiroshi Hamaya