Japanese Kimono

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Japanese Kimono

• History of kimono
• Making kimono
• Kimono items
• Occasions for Wearing Kimonos

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History of Kimono
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Making kimono
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Kimono items
Han-eri
Obiage obijime
obi
Tabizori
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Occasions for Wearing kimonos

• Coming-of Age Day
• Weddings
• Funerals
• Other occasions

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Coming-of Age Day

• At the age of 20, young people celebrate their
  passage into adulthood on Coming-of-Age Day, the
  second Monday in January.
• For this occasion, many girls wear furisode
  (kimonos with long flowing sleeves) and some boys
  wear haori (half-coats) and hakama decorated with
  their family crests.

• Haori hakama

• furisode

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Weddings
At weddings, the bride wears a pure white kimono
known as a shiromuku. The color white signifies
the beginning of a journey. Bride and grooms
mothers wear black- tomesode,so that the other
women relatives used to wear colored-tomesode for
their respects to them , but these days
black-tomesode is also acceptable.

• black-tomesode

• shiromuku

• colored-tomesode

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Funerals

• When Japanese women attend funeral,they wear
  black kimono which has family crests called
  Mohuku with black items obijime, obiage, zori
  and obi.The haneri and tabi have to be white.

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Other occasions

• There are many other kinds of kimonos for women.

• Formal Occasions (tea
  ceremonies,wedding as a gust)
• homongi
• Tukesage
• Iromuji
• Casual occasions
• komon
• Summer festival
• yukata

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More kimono style
Tsukesage decorated with patterns running up from
the front and back hemlines to meet at the top of
the shoulders
komon which are covered entirely by a pattern
homongi which are covered entirely by a pattern
iromuji which hasnt any pattern
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