The standard shopping bags and wrapping paper of the Takashimaya department store have this pattern but in full color. However, because this is Japan and there is a chance that what you buy might be a gift for a funeral or memorial service (they are called "osonae" or "御供え" and they are part of a greater conversation we will have at some point), if this is the case, you tell them and they wrap it in this paper and put it in this bag that have the same pattern but in black and white.
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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