A love letter to Edo-period Japan, this design is layered with scholarship, wit, and intricate detail. Two black-tailed jackrabbits command the foreground in miniature kawari kabuto, the ornate "strange helmets" of feudal Japanese warriors, reimagined here with stylized metal and lacquer rabbit ears. Between them rests a matching helmet shaped as a crouching rabbit, all three based on true Edo-period artifacts. A third jackrabbit floats behind them, tethered to a paper lantern daubed with the word "rabbit" and draped in a tasselled cloth bearing a famous samurai crest.

The hillside beyond teems with white rabbits and silver reeds beneath a glowing full moon. Borders are lined with lacquered and ivory menuki, tiny carved animal-shaped sword grips, framed by woven banding that references samurai sword handle wrapping. Annotations in Japanese handwriting echo 17th-century zoological manuscripts throughout.

Down the left side, Sabina's own haiku reads:

Silently, at dusk,
A hare is flying over
A hundred rabbits

Colour: Cameo/Rice

100% silk

42cm x 42cm

Hand-rolled edges

Dry clean only

The Floating Rabbits Silk Twill Scarf 42

Designer: Sabina Savage