Japanese clothing
This article deals with the traditional Japanese clothing (Japanese和服Wafuku ), which has been handed down for centuries. The complement to this, as a "Western clothes " (洋服Yōfuku ) refers.
Traditional outerwear
Jimbei
Jimbei (甚 兵卫or甚 平) is a traditional Japanese garment, which is worn mainly by men and children in the summer. Jimbei - sets consist of an upper part and a corresponding short pants.
A traditional Jimbei is made of hemp or cotton and available in a single color, usually blue or green in color. The upper part resembles a armless, or short-sleeved jacket, which extends down to the hips. It is tied together either in or over the jacket. Traditional Jimbei are often worn by men as a substitute for yukata summer festivals.
Nowadays, Jimbei is often used as pajamas. Modern Jimbei be made of many materials and printed with patterns. This type of Jimbei includes a shorter jacket that is stretchable at the waist.
Junihitoe
The junihitoe (十二 単) is an elegant and complicated especially true kimono that was only worn by ladies of the Japanese imperial family. Literally translated junihitoe " zwölfschichtige Robe".
The junihitoe first appeared in the 10th century during the Heian period. The different layers of the dress are made of silk. The innermost layer is made of white silk, followed by other layers that have different names and are eventually covered by a final layer or an overcoat. The total weight may be up to 20 kg. The colors and the composition of the individual layers are very important. In addition, the colors have poetic names, such as " purple plum of Spring". The only places where the different layers of material for the viewer to be visible, on the collar, sleeves, and sometimes also at the bottom of the dress. The composition and the colors of the different layers of fabric are good whistleblower for outsiders, because they reveal what taste and what status the lady. Apart from their robes, they had very long hair, which was sometimes also tied to the back.
Today, the junihitoe only in museums or movies can be viewed because it has long been discontinued. These robes are considered priceless and are among the most expensive clothes in Japan. Only the Japanese imperial family used the junihitoe for special occasions. During the wedding of Crown Princess Masako with the Crown Prince Naruhito Masako had also worn a junihitoe. In addition, the junihitoe also by Empress Michiko took place in 1990 while using the enthronement of Emperor Akihito in the year. Your ladies wore all the junihitoe, but in a modified form of the Edo period, not in the Heian style.
Kimono
Kimono is a traditional Japanese garment kaftanartiges represented by a broad belt ( Obi ) is held together.
Originally, the word kimono was referring to all kinds of garments.
Today's kimono took in the Heian period (794-1192) shape. Since then, remained the basic form of the kimono for both men and women largely unchanged. A T-shaped, straight robe, reaching to the ankles, a collar and wide sleeves. If you horizontally stretches the arms of himself, drop the sleeve from the wrist to about the hip ( in some styles the sleeves can even almost touch the ground). The robe is wrapped around the body, always with the left side over the right. Is held together by a sash of the kimono -like belt, the obi. He is knotted at the back.
The kimono for women are essentially of one size. They are clamped and folded to be the individual body needs. Today, however, both kimono for men and women proliferated in different sizes are available. Very large or heavily built man ( for example, sumo wrestlers ) require a specially tailored kimono.
In the past, kimono have been completely taken apart, so you could wash them in individual parts. Then the parts were sewn together. Modern washing methods and materials, however, have made this approach largely unnecessary. Sometimes it brings for storage with wide and loose stitches around a folded kimono a basting stitch on. This prevents the formation of wrinkles or creasing and keeps at the same time, the various layers of the kimono together.
Over time there have been many variations in color, fabric and style, also in the accessories such as the obi.
Hakama
The or the hakama is part of traditional Japanese outerwear. It is a developed around 1600 leg dress that is worn over the Keiko - gi and is found in two variants: with split legs like a divided skirt, or without division like a rock, and is now worn by both women and men.
The origins of the hakama as leg protection of mounted samurai of the Edo period against bushes and scrub. Until the Second World War, it was quite normal to encounter in the public men in hakama and haori. After that, more and more Japanese chose western clothes for everyday life. Today, the hakama is worn almost exclusively as formal clothing at ceremonies and scream visits, the traditional Japanese dance and Artists ( mainly without leg division ) as well as in various martial arts (such as Aikido, Iaido, Kyudo or Kendo ) ( with leg division ).
In martial arts circles, the seven folds of the hakama are often associated with the seven virtues of the samurai.
Yukata
A Yukata is a traditional Japanese garment made of cotton. It serves primarily as a straightforward, lighter and more mundane version of the kimono, making it easier to tie and is less expensive. A yukata is after bathing, dressed in Japanese hotels or summer parties, like fireworks festival. Often, the yukata is also used as pajamas.
Obi (belt)
Obi is the belt, for example, also the kimono.
In Japanese martial arts, he belongs to each Keikogi ( sportswear for Budo - sports) and is usually functionally for holding the Uwagi ( suit jacket ) and holding the hakama. In Iaidō and Kenjutsu it also serves to carry the sword in the scabbard. He also shows in many Budō sports on, the progress of a fighter.
Traditional footwear
Tabi (socks)
Tabi are ankle-high socks with seperate big toe.
They are usually worn with zori or geta. Are usual white Tabi; But men also wear occasionally black or dark blue. There are also patterned and colored tabi. However, these are rare. Today there are also stretch versions that bear particularly close at the foot of what is regarded in Japan as aesthetically.
There is also an enhanced version of the Tabi (地下 足 袋, Jika - tabi tabi lit the touch the ground ), often with rubber coating on the sole, which are carried at no extra sandals or shoes. Traditionally this type Tabi is supported for example by construction workers, carpenters, farmers and gardeners because it provides a better grip than Zori.
Zori ( sandal )
Zori are traditional Japanese sandals. They consist of a sole and two straps that pass between the big and second toe. Therefore be worn to Zori socks with separated toe, the Tabi.
There are made from rice straw braided, easy to coarse zori, which were used to wear during everyday use, as well as a considered more elegant effect variant with narrow, high and with fabric (now often usually plastic) related sole that is worn only by women.
Today Zori be worn only on traditional clothing, such as to festivals or in Budo.
Geta ( footwear)
Geta Japanese wooden shoes called that are worn with traditional clothing such as the kimono. Typical of Geta are the high soles that, in earlier times the foot held in Japanese culture, which has always been regarded as high cleanliness virtue at a distance for filth on the street.
Waraji
Waraji are Japanese sandals, which are made of various durable plant fibers (hemp, stalks of Myoga - a ginger - type, Zingiber Mioga ), palm fibers, cotton cords, rice straw, etc.) In ancient Japan, they were the footwear of ordinary people. Over the Gekokujō period, which was marked by peasant revolts, wearing Waraji also samurai became more popular - to the same extent, as evidenced by continued the fight on foot. Nowadays they are worn primarily by traditional oriented Buddhist monks.
Traditionally they carry the Japanese with forward protruding toes, that is too short by European standards.
The Waraji be bound in different ways depending on the purpose (for example Nakachi - nuki, Yotsu - chigake and takano -gake ). So a monk binds differently than a farmer or a soldier or a city dweller.