The story of Kamon.
 Tumao Awasaka awork  Shinseisensyo1997.11.25
The world of The Family crest (Kamon) designer.
Is as for the family crest of the bottom, it understood what is shown?
これは鳥に見えますか ?
これは文字でしょうか ?
千成り瓢箪に見えますが ?
Matuba shop the third Kamonmaker Mr. Tumao Awasaka saw a coat of arms notebook, and grew up so that a picture book might change.
It is talking in "the story of the family crest".
A picture mentor is the taken work of drawing the coat of arms introduced to each house in the Montuki (Japanese ceremonial dress.)
It becomes a coat of arms notebook with the thing of the crest collection which an upper picture mentor uses and which is made precisely from 2000-3000 collection.
There is a standard for a choice in the coat of arms, and it is being written to know its Japanese feeling well when it is known.
An animal such as the lion. snake. eagle which threatens the person who sees it in the West and a fish aren't being used at all.
It seems that it was extremely careful for the choice of that material.
Then the pattern which a Japanese liked is modest 【 the nature whose mysterious astronomy. is beautiful, and the plant. 】, and it is the good geometrical pattern of small animal. amusement.
【A Japanese family crest total example.】
written by Shigeo Chikano
  Kadokawa Publishing Co.

About 20000 points of coats of arms are on it.
The thing that Mr. Chikano went around the whole country for 30 years and that a rubbed copy did the coat of arms engraved on the
tombstone and which was raised.
Answer.
The left. : Red Bird           Inside.Mist.         The right: The first snow of the year.

True character isn't clear for a long time, and a red bird is the family crest which worried the people.
A red bird is to take dirt.
It was the toilet set to take the dirt attached to the comb.
The user of the coat of arms hates the letter of the dirt, and it seems that he was changed to the red bird.