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  2. List of items traditionally worn in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The obi-age has the dual purpose of hiding the obi-makura and providing a colour contrast against the obi. Obi-age are often silk, and are typically worn with more formal varieties of kimono. Obi-age can be plain-dyed silk, but are often decorated with shibori tie-dyeing; for maiko, obi-age are only ever red with a gold or silver foil design.

  3. Obi (sash) - Wikipedia

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    Manaita obi (俎板帯, "chopping board obi ") is the style of front-tied, flat obi worn historically by some oiran (courtesans), and now worn by courtesan-reenactors and kabuki actors on stage. Manaita obi are thickly padded and commonly feature large-scale, heavily decorated and sometimes three-dimensional motifs such as butterflies, clouds ...

  4. Japanese clothing - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Kimono - Wikipedia

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    The first instances of kimono-like garments in Japan were traditional Chinese clothing introduced to Japan via Chinese envoys in the Kofun period (300–538 CE; the first part of the Yamato period), through immigration between the two countries and envoys to the Tang dynasty court leading to Chinese styles of dress, appearance, and culture becoming extremely popular in Japanese court society. [1]

  6. Hakata-ori - Wikipedia

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    Hakata-ori traces its history back to 1235 CE (Kamakura period Japan), when a Japanese merchant from Fukuoka Prefecture, Mitsuda Yazaemon, travelled to Song dynasty China with the Buddhist monk Shoichi Kokushi [8] [9] [10] to learn Song-period trades and traditions, such as the making of manjū (traditional Japanese cakes), ceramic production techniques, gold leaf, [vague], the production of ...

  7. Nishijin-ori - Wikipedia

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    Nishijin-ori fukuro obi showing a woven scene with aristocrats Detail of Nō robe from Nishijin, silk with gilded paper, Edo period. Nishijin-ori (西陣織, lit. ' Nishijin fabric ') is a traditional textile produced in the Nishijin (西陣) district of Kamigyō-ku in Kyoto, Japan.

  8. Jūnihitoe - Wikipedia

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    Though the Empress, the imperial princesses, and their ladies-in-waiting all wore the jūnihitoe, the style worn was a modified form from the Edo period, not the Heian style. [ citation needed ] For the 2019 enthronement of Emperor Naruhito , the women of the Imperial family and their ladies-in-waiting all wore jūnihitoe , while the Emperor ...

  9. Japanese clothing during the Meiji period - Wikipedia

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    A woodblock print by Yōshū Chikanobu showing Japanese women in Western-style clothes, hats, and shoes (yōfuku)Japanese clothing during the Meiji period (1867–1912) saw a marked change from the preceding Edo period (1603–1867), following the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate between 1853 and 1867, the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 – which, led by Matthew C. Perry, forcibly opened ...