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Kamon: Japanese family crests

by France98 on 11/18/15, 1:00 PM with 9 comments

• by colmvp on 11/19/15, 1:08 AM

  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.

• by brudgers on 11/18/15, 2:50 PM

  Background on kamon (家紋):

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

• by showerst on 11/19/15, 12:29 AM

  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...

• by cbracken on 11/19/15, 1:53 AM

  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.

• by imron on 11/19/15, 2:01 AM

  Good to see the Triforce in there.

• by wyclif on 11/19/15, 1:14 AM

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