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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 ...
Originating in the Heian period as an undergarment for both men and women, the kosode was a plain white garment, typically made of silk, worn directly next to the skin.Both men and women wore layered, wrap-fronted, wide-sleeved robes on top of the kosode, with the style of layering worn by women of the Imperial Japanese court – known as the jūnihitoe, literally "twelve layers" – featuring ...
A junihitoe was a specific kind of court dress. There were analogous types of dress for men. To the best of my knowledge, the junihitoe was more about fashion and practicality than restricting the wearer. Fashion-wise, the colours and textures of the layers worn were an indication of the taste of the wearer.
17th-century depiction of Murasaki by Tosa Mitsuoki. Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, ' Lady Murasaki '; c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period.
The sokutai (束帯) is a traditional Japanese outfit worn only by courtiers, aristocrats and the emperor at the Japanese imperial court.The sokutai originated in the Heian period, and consists of a number of parts, including the ho (outer robe), shaku (笏), a flat ritual baton or sceptre, and the kanmuri (冠), a cap-shaped black lacquered silk hat with a pennon.
Michiko in 1940. Michiko Shōda was born on 20 October 1934 at the University of Tokyo Hospital in Bunkyō, Tokyo, the second of four children born to Hidesaburō Shōda (正田英三郎, Shōda Hidesaburō, 1903–1999), president and later honorary chairman of Nisshin Flour Milling Company, and his wife, Fumiko Soejima (副島 富美子, Soejima Fumiko, 1909–1988).
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"The Receding Princess" from The Japanese Fairy Book, 1908. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Japanese: 竹取物語, Hepburn: Taketori Monogatari) is a monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore.