Japanese clothing
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There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as Japanese clothing, including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and Western clothing which encompasses all
Photograph of a man and woman wearing traditional clothing, taken in Osaka, Japan
Reconstructed Yayoi clothing
Museum-reconstruction figurines (conducting religious ceremony; note shide)
Haniwa figure
Kimono
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The kimono 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
Japanese clothing
…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. Traditional…
A Zen temple-goer wearing a formal cherry-blossom-motif kimono
A rakugoka (storyteller) wearing kimono and 5-mon haori
A man and a woman wearing formal kimono, for a 1923 wedding (other views)
Kimono for a young woman, depicting a boat on swirling water, with pine tree, plum blossoms and maples. Japan, 1912–1926. From the Khalili Collection of Kimono