Kamon: Japanese family crests

[colmvp]

The site took ripped all the images from original source without including the Japanese translation of the crest and just presented on their own blog in a list. Sure, they credited the source, but the idea of ripping all content from another site without really adding much to it seems kind of scummy. For example, if I liked an illustrator, I'd just choose a few of their works to highlight while linking back to their website to see the remainder of images.

[brudgers]

Background on kamon (家紋):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)

[icanhackit]

The Wikipedia page contains a link to some 6939 Mon here: https://x181.secure.ne.jp/~x181007/kamon/goodslist.cgi

[Aeolun]

Thank you. I was wondering why this wasn't part of the article itself.

[showerst]

Sakana restaurant in DC has really cool placemats that are tiled with these. They look similar to http://www.zazzle.com/kamon_pattern_cloth_place_mat-19322318...

[cbracken]

For a much larger collection, there's http://kamondb.com. The navbar at the top jumps between categories. e.g. Plant-related kamon: http://kamondb.com/plant.

[imron]

Good to see the Triforce in there.

[wyclif]

It's interesting how the first one looks like a triquetra. John Bonham (of Led Zeppelin) would have no doubt been pleased.

[zorpner]

It's a set of Borromean rings, a personal favorite "knot" (really a braid) of mine and a remarkably common occurrence in iconography once you start looking for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings