Uesugi Mon T-Shirts

Description: Uesugi mon from the japanese shogunate. The mon is an emblem to designate a family, clan or even an organization. The kamon is used specifically to identify a family. The mon is similar to the coat of arms from European heraldic tradition. Although, there is a big difference, the mon stays clean and minimalistic in design. European crests tend to get very complicated by combining other family crests over the generations. Mon and Kamon are usually designed using a roundel containing a abstracted, stylized image of an object. This object can be a plant, an animal, a tool, or anything you fancy. This will lead to a large amount of categories containg many variations of aparticular object. Although we end up with thousends of mon, d...

Description: This is the Uesugi Sasa (上杉笹) mon, meaning “Uesugi Bamboo”, it is the sasa mon that used by Uesugi clan.

Description: This is the Kenmonshokamon Uesugi Sasa (見聞諸家紋 上杉笹) mon, meaning "Uesugi Bamboo of Kenmonshokamon ", it is the version of Uesugi Clan kamon recorded in Kenmonshokamon, the oldest book that collect the family crests of Japanese samurai.