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Photograph of a man and woman wearing traditional clothing, taken in Osaka, Japan. There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as Japanese clothing (和服, wafuku), including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and Western clothing (洋服, yōfuku), which encompasses all else not recognised as either national dress or the dress of another country.
The kosode was worn in Japan as common, everyday dress from roughly the Kamakura period (1185–1333) until the latter years of the Edo period (1603–1867), at which a point its proportions had diverged to resemble those of modern-day kimono; it was also at this time that the term kimono, meaning "thing to wear on the shoulders", first came ...
The kimono (きもの/着物, lit. ' thing to wear ') [a] is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan.The kimono is a wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, and is worn left side wrapped over right, unless the wearer is deceased. [2]
Ōshima-tsumugi is a traditional craft textile produced in the Amami Islands (mainly Amami Ōshima) in southern Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a hand-woven plain-weave silk cloth dyed in mud. The textile is most commonly used for making kimonos. Oshima-tsumugi kimonos are often simply called Ōshima. Detail of an Oshima kimono up close.
The haori (羽織) is a traditional Japanese jacket worn over a kimono. Resembling a shortened kimono with no overlapping front panels ( okumi ), the haori typically features a thinner collar than that of a kimono, and is sewn with the addition of two thin, triangular panels at either side seam.
"Kimono" literally means "thing to wear on the shoulders", [9]: 20 and originally referred to clothing in general rather than a specific garment. [10] Clothing similar to the kimono was first introduced to Japan in the 7th century [9]: 20 through frequent interaction between Japan and mainland China. The exchange of envoys between the two ...
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An unmarried Japanese woman wearing a furisode A Japanese woman wearing a furisode at the Japanese garden. A furisode (振袖, lit. ' swinging sleeves ') is a style of kimono distinguishable by its long sleeves, which range in length from 85 cm (33 in) for a kofurisode (小振袖, lit.