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In Shōnai, sashiko is said to represent snow on the ground. The stitches do not represent rice grains, although moyōzashi stitches resemble them. By official order during the Edo era, farmers in Shōnai could only wear blue or grey colours with patterns no larger than a grain of rice or with stripes no thicker than a straw. This could be the origin of the idea that sashiko stitches must resemble grains of rice. Komezashi (rice stitch, page 97, shown right) is so called because it looks like the kanji character for rice.