Japanese Ceremonial Silk Lumbar Pillow – The Persimmon Aoi Heritage, Aoi Crest in Persimmon and Gold

A lumbar pillow cover in Japanese ceremonial silk, cut from a Nishijin fukuro obi (袋帯): the aoi (葵, Tokugawa hollyhock crest) set in a shippo (七宝, seven-treasures) ground across persimmon silk. Envelope-pocket back, no metal against the silk; 50 × 31 cm (also 36 × 31 cm). For warm, heraldic interiors. Spot clean only. Unrepeatable, finished at the Renaras atelier, Amsterdam.

Aoi. The crest of the Tokugawa. The hollyhock crest of Japan's most enduring shogunal house — rendered here on persimmon silk with the shippo seven-treasures border.

Against a warm persimmon silk ground, the aoi crest sits in fields of shippo — the seven-treasures geometry of interlocking circles — in burnished gold and metallic thread. The persimmon gives the composition its warmth. The aoi gives it its lineage.

A pillow for charcoal sofas, walnut studies, rooms that hold one collected object — quiet beauty for ordinary moments, gathered around a shared table.

The face is the original silk, backed in undyed linen. Envelope pocket closure. No metal touches the visible silk.

Renaras: Japanese ceremonial silk, reimagined for daily life.

Each piece arrives with its own passport from the atelier — a small handmade record of the silk's first life and its transformation, signed and dated in Amsterdam.

One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.