tatewaku 立涌

Also read tatewaki or written 立枠. A design motif made of vertical, tate 立, curvilinear lines which bulge and narrow to create an hourglass effect. A type of *yūsoku mon'yō 有職文様. Tatewaku probably originated from the Chinese pattern *nindōmon 忍冬文. See *karakusamon 唐草文.

Popular variations have different motifs set inside the spaces created by the two vertical wavy lines, such as cloud vertical stripes kumotatewaku 雲立涌, chrysanthemum kikutatewaku 菊立涌, wave namitatewaku 波立涌, wisteria fujitatewaku 藤立涌, honeysuckle tsutsuji tatewaku 躑躅立涌 or bamboo-grass sasatatewaku 笹立涌.