Flowing Water Pattern

Japanese: 流水文 - りゅうすいもん

A type of decorative pattern. It is typical of the Yayoi period, and is often seen on pottery and bronze bells, and is also often used on wooden products. It is a flowing pattern of flowing water drawn continuously horizontally or vertically in an S-shape, with a refined symmetrical beauty, and in later periods it transformed into a modified flowing water pattern. It was in the early modern period that it became widely used as a design for dyed and woven products, and examples of this include Kanze-mizu, fan-shaped flowing fan, and chrysanthemum water pattern, and water was often added as a realistic pictorial pattern.

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Japanese:

装飾文様の一種。弥生時代の代表的なもので，土器，銅鐸に多くみられ，しばしば木製品にも施されている。流水を文様化し，Sの字状に横あるいは縦に連続的に描かれた流動的文様で，洗練された均整美をもち，後期になると変形流水文へと転化する。染織品の意匠として多用されるようになったのは近世以降で，観世水 (かんぜみず) ，扇面流し，菊水文などがみられ，写生的な絵画文様として水を加えることも多く行われた。

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