When the fourteenth shogun, Iemochi TOKUGAWA, planned to goto Kyoto, the origin of his wife Imperial Princess Kazunomiya Chikako, he asked her what she wanted as a souvenir, and she asked him to bring Nishijin ori.
14代将軍徳川家茂は京都行きが決まると妻和宮親子内親王に故郷の土産は何がよいかと訊ねたところ、和宮は西陣織をねだった。