{"id":"kanga","no":278,"name":"Kanga","ja":"カンガ","era":"1880s–","family":"染織の伝統","kind":"スタイル","collection":"Dictionary expansion 15","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"The British Museum — collection","url":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection","credit":"The British Museum — collection","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khanga.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khanga.jpg","credit":"カンガの布（CC BY-SA 4.0）"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Khanga%20dresed%20lady%2001.png?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Khanga%20dresed%20lady%2001.png","credit":"カンガをまとう（CC BY-SA 4.0）"}]},"essence":"東アフリカ沿岸の女性が身につける一枚布。縁取り・中央図像・スワヒリ語の格言（ジナ）という三部構成で、着ることが発話になる「メッセージをまとう布」。","cues":["縁取りと中央図像の構成","スワヒリ語の格言","鮮やかな二色対比","対で使う一枚布"],"intents":["親密","遊び","反骨"],"works":["贈り物になる布に、送り主の言葉を図像ごと載せたいとき","着ることが発話になる、伝言を持った衣装を設計するとき"],"recipe":{"type":"格言を一行だけ縁の内側に置き、中央図像より小さく組む","layout":"縁取りで囲い、中央に一つの図像を置いて三部構成にする","material":"綿の平織に二色対比で捺染し、対で使えるよう同柄を二枚作る"},"avoid":"格言を意味の分からないまま柄として並べると、着る人の発話が成立せず、失礼な文言を配ることになる","colors":["#d7dfea","#d46338","#1f1819"],"motif":"world","pair":["kente","adire"],"study":["ジナ（格言）の文化","ザンジバルの交易史","政治キャンペーンのカンガ"],"en":{"essence":"Women along the East African coast wear this printed cloth in a single piece. Its three-part composition of border, central image and Swahili proverb (jina) makes the act of wearing an act of speech.","cues":["Border-and-center composition","Swahili proverbs","Bold two-color contrast","Worn in pairs"],"works":["Cloth given as a gift that carries the giver's words with its image","Designing a garment that speaks, where wearing is saying"],"recipe":{"type":"One line of proverb set inside the border, smaller than the central image","layout":"Frame with a border and place a single image at the center","material":"Two-color print on plain cotton, made in pairs of the same design"},"avoid":"Laying proverbs out as pattern without knowing what they say leaves the wearer unable to speak and can distribute an insult.","study":["the culture of jina","Zanzibar's trading history","campaign kangas"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/kanga","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/kanga","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/kanga/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/kanga/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}