May 23, 2021
Rare design for this chilling summer hikizuri (long skirt kimono). From the pale lavender ground, blooms akikusa (autumn plants) while a skeleton emerges from the haze. The discarded and rotten itatoba (buddhist wooden grave tablets) seems to indicate that this scene takes place in a cemetery - or at least by a lonely grave.
This late summer/early autumn kimono is definitely a striking conversation piece and was probably worn by a Geisha.