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Pages in category "Samurai clothing" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Fundoshi; H. Hachimaki;
Before the advent of school uniforms in Japan, students wore everyday clothes, which included hakama for men. In the Meiji period (1868–1912) and Taishō period (1912–1926), Western-style wear was adopted for school uniforms, [10] initially for both male and female uniforms. [11] However, at the time, Western women's dress was fairly ...
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 ...
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 chonmage (丁髷) is a type of traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men. It is most commonly associated with the Edo period (1603–1868) and samurai, and in recent times with sumo wrestlers. It was originally a method of using hair to hold a samurai kabuto helmet steady atop the head in battle, and became a status symbol among ...
Dancing for ancestral souls: Daily News (Sri Lanka) ‘Kouchi’: Authentic Japanese (Sunday Times) Japanese Graduate's Alumini Association of Sri Lanka (JAGAAS): Study in Japan Archived 2020-01-29 at the Wayback Machine; The Sunday Leader Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
A total of 31 or 33 patterns were embroidered on the kanmuri of nobles of the fifth rank and above. This was called a kanmuri of shigemon (繁文, lit. ' many patterns '). A kanmuri with fewer patterns was called a kanmuri of tōmon (遠文, lit. ' patterns with many gaps ') and was worn by the lower ranks of nobility. [9]
The men-yoroi was constructed from iron, leather, or a combination of both. It had a lacquered or rusted type of finish and included a variety of facial details, such as a moustache, fierce teeth and a detachable nose. [5] [6] With the exception of the happuri, a men-yoroi had a small hole underneath the chin for sweat drainage.