Pine

Pine is another massive group of iconic forms with seemingly unending iterations. Katagami patterns offer pine forests, pine-cones, stylized pine boughs, needles on the forest floor, pine as a home for cranes, as an attribute of women (evergreen), as a decorative motif on fans or kites or books. Each branch of this design family grows into hundreds of images over the thousand-year history of katagami. Here are a few. You can find more in the catalog.