A collection of Japanese Kamon Images for use in ML generative projects. Refer to wikipedia for the history of kamon (家紋), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(emblem)
Mon images were sourced primarily from a site in web.archive. The original site no longer appears to exist.
source: web.archive.org/web/20140201015941/http://x181.secure.ne.jp/~x181007/kamon/goodslist.cgi?in_kate=&in_start=6860&max=
After collecting files in gif and jpg with both white and transparent backgrounds and sizes.
The files have all been reprocessed to be more consistent.
Images were centered and placed on a white background with a fixed size of 224x224 and saved as jpg.
6425 images 224x224
mon-white-224.tar.gz
Sample of dataset contents:
