All the montsuki of this and the following pages, the originals, were hand painted by Nobuyuki using incredibly small brushes, as a love-gift to Andrej.
The lower set is the "aoi-no-mon", like the one here on the left, i.e. the crest of the former Shoguns' Family, the Tokugawa, which ruled Japan fror 250 years. It represents the aoi (hollyhok).
The lower set is the "aoi-no-mon", like the one here on the left, i.e. the crest of the former Shoguns' Family, the Tokugawa, which ruled Japan fror 250 years. It represents the aoi (hollyhok).
