Since ancient times until the 1600s,

Japanese farmers wearing outfits made from hemp

common fibrous plant.

This tissue was gradually replaced by cotton imported from China

and India.
Production of cotton fabrics made its final essort

Japan in the nineteenth century.
A lot of symbols and motifs are until in textiles

Japanese like waves (seigaiha), hemp (asanoha)

the chirsanthemes, the cherry blossoms (sakura), cranes,

fish, turtles...