warabidemon 蕨手文

Also warabimon 蕨文. A design pattern which represents the bracken fern in spring when it gives out curling shoots. It appears on Jomon 縄文 pottery and on cast bronze mirrors, bells and swords of the Kofun period. In the Hakuho period it is found on the hair style *suihotsu 垂髪 of Buddhist statuary. In the middle ages it appears on Noh robes *nōshōzoku 能装束, architectural railings *kōran 高欄, and on the hilts of swords. An overall pattern of warabidemon with *ryūsuimon 流水文 dividing the individual designs is called warabimizumon 蕨水文.