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A Scarce Senninbari the belt of 1000 stitches, bright red sun on cotton, 1000 stitches, with two Jananese each side of the red sun a very nice example, cotton…nice condition, 12×50 in. 千人針
A Senninbari (千人針 thousand-person-stitches) or One-thousand stitch is a strip of cloth that measures approximately 6 inches high and up to 3 or 4 feet or more in length. Each end of the belt (sash) may or may not have strings, snaps or buttons that allow it to be fastened about the waist. Examples that lack these were often tucked into the waist. Other variations were never worn but may have been folded and placed inside helmet liners, pockets or packs. Senninbari were decorated with 1000 knots or stitches, and each stitch was normally made by a different woman. Senninbari were given as an amulet by women to soldiers on their way to war as a part of the Shinto culture of Imperial Japan