Shide are the folded zigzag strips of white washi paper that hang from the braided rice-straw shimenawa marking sacred ground at Shinto shrines across pre-1900 Japan. Warm golden-tan rope crosses dark timber; near-white streamers dangle from it, catching shadow in their lightning-shaped folds. This system takes its ground from the rope, not the paper. The signature is the shaded gray-white of the creased washi resting in the rope's shadow — reverent, spare, hung from a top line, with vermilion reserved for the sacred mark.