This japanese towel is dyed using traditional hand dyeing techniques unique to Japan called "Chusen".The back side is the same design.The back side is not white.You can use it without worrying about the front and back.
»About "Chusen"

≪ Design ≫

"Komochi Yoshiwara"
This is a striped pattern with smaller rectangles inside the rectangles of "Yoshiwara Tsunagi".
It has the meaning of enduring personal ties that do not break, like the chain in "Yoshiwara Tsunagi".
By sending a gift to a special someone wrapped in this pattern, it can have the meaning "I want our relationship to continue on".

≪ Color ≫

Iris (Soubu-iro / Ayame-iro)
It refers to a purple with a bright red tone like the purple color of ayame (a type of Japanese iris).
It is only in the recent times that it came out as a dye. There is a similar color called kakitsubata-iro (color of Japanese iris called kakitsubata).
English name "iris" - the purple of the Japanese iris called ayame.