May 28, 2024
Fantastic antique summer kimono depicting an ukai (cormorant fishing) seasonal scenery: a regal u (cormorant) is wing-drying upon jakago (gabion, with stones patterned with hagi/bushclover, kikyo/Chinese bellflower and nadeshiko/pinks). Above, yanagi (willow) gently flows over what looks like ukago (woven basket used for cormorant fishing) scattered in the river.
Summer is when ayu (sweetfish) season open for traditional cormorant fishing. As OP notes, an obi with this fish would the perfect match!