Okobo
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Okobo, also referred to as pokkuri, bokkuri, or koppori geta, are traditional Japanese wooden sandals worn by young girls for Shichi-Go-San, young women during Coming of Age Day and apprentice geisha
A pair of okobo with a woven bamboo top surface
Side view of another pair. Red-gold-green brocade hanao, wood lacquered in red with gold and green decoration
The same pair as adjacent, showing takagawa omote (four-warp woven bamboo-skin topsole; see zōri)
The same pair from below, showing maegane more clearly than side view
Waraji
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Waraji are light tie-on sandals, made from ropemaking fibers, that were the standard footwear of the common people in Japan.
Okobo
…Tabi Waraji Media related to Okobo at Wikimedia Commons…
Waraji over indigo-blue tabi, the sock colour digitally altered for clarity
Similar four- and six-warp Chinese sandals, c. 1930 (other views)
Waraji were traditionally made in the home, as shown here (September 1914). Note twine warp, held between hands and toes, and loose-fiber weft, to his right.
Pictorial instructions on how to weave zōri (similar to waraji) in Hida Minzoku Mura Folk Village; most Japanese no longer regularly make waraji.