Taiko kiri kitchen towel

The paulownia crest, along with the chrysanthemum crest, has auspicious significance and has been an authoritative crest, so it has been used since ancient times as a pattern for armor, swords, and their accessories. In the era of Hideyoshi, it was further applied to general arts and crafts, so the paulownia crest became an unprecedented fad. From clothing furnishings to architectural carvings, there was hardly anything that didn't use this pattern. The so-called Taiko kiri formed a kind of vigorous and unrestrained style. In the art works of the Momoyama period, the application of this pattern is seen in almost all of them ("Japanese Crests")