Lively antique outfit, pairing a colorful tsuru (crane) kimono, with lustrous satin obi bearing decorated yabane (arrow fletching).
Arrows are popular auspicious pattern symbolizing “straight to luck” wishes. Worn around New Year season, this attire could also hint at decorations sold by Shinto shrines and called hamaya (lit. demon breaking arrow).
Hamaya can also be paired be the Lunar year animal. For 2023, you can hence find rabbits holding arrows like this one:
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