A Japanese pattern book of hand-colored woodblock-style plates showing striped and patterned woven textile swatches (shima), each with brief handwritten or printed Japanese captions naming the pattern. The plates show vertical stripes, lattice, diamond, key-fret, chain-link, cloud and floral motifs in many colors. There is almost no running text and no weaving drafts; the value is as a visual sample book of Japanese stripe and pattern designs of the period.

A Japanese pattern book from 1904 consisting almost entirely of color-printed plates of striped, checked and figured textile swatches, with brief Japanese captions naming each pattern (such as plaids, wavy lines, bird and plant motifs). The colophon gives Kyoto printing and publication in October of Meiji 37 (1904). It is a visual design reference for Japanese kimono-type fabrics, with no weaving drafts or technical instructions.