
©Noriko Tokumitsu
Kitamaebune (Northbound Ships), navy blue umbrella
This umbrella was painted by the local artist and ceramicist Takashi Kitamura. The Kitamaebune is a Japanese merchant ship with a single mast, that sailed between northern Japan and Osaka in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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