日本の蓑(みの)とばんどりのコレクションです。
ばんどりは、背負子の下に背負う背当ての一種で庄内地方で発展したものです。
特に装飾性の高いものは、婚礼の嫁入り道具を運ぶ際などに、また、お見合いの際に男性が作ったばんどりをその人柄を紹介するものとして仲人を通じて女性側に贈られることもあったと言われています。
"Mino - Rain Cape" and "Bandori - Back protector"
People used to create these things using materials that surrounded them such as rice and wheat straw, reed, bark, vines, and seaweed.
Bandori is a kind of "Se-ate" back protector for carrying heavy bundles. Especially Bandori was used when a man was introduced to a woman for marriage, appealing his personality through the Bandori that he had made, which was old custom in north east of Japan.