About Kimono - Japanese Traditional Clothing

According to Koike Saegusa clothing historian, kimono is a means "thing to wear" originally, it was a word that means "clothing" simply. But clothes since to populate the Edo period, and distinction between "Western-clothes", "clothes", and now referred to as "Japan's clothing", "kimono" and "clothes of traditional Japanese", the term "kimono" further I began to be replaced also. Age advances, clothes and so frequently used in daily life, the original meaning of the "things to wear" is faded from "Kimono", the meaning of "kimono" went darker. Word in contemporary called "Kimono" means "kimono" exclusively, (kimono if that haori and kimono, ie long-wear) kimono certain forms of is shifting to the words to refer to in a narrow sense.

Kimono at the time of the 16th century long before, he called Japanese refers to the thing of clothes than the Meiji era the word kimono born in Japan (kimono) is known to Europeans as a word that represents the kimono referred to in the current and now for more info see here, it is called a kimono what is called kimono in Japan in many languages ​​of the world is not limited to Europe at present. The kimono, sometimes not only kimono in Japan, refers to the clothes in general expressions match before seen in East Asia in general.

Actual situation is unclear because there is excavated examples of such trinkets made ​​shellfish and stone for body decoration of Jomon era, organic matter such as plant fiber is difficult to remain as archaeological relics for clothes. However, that there is excavated cases and bags with strings attached and fragments of knitted fabric, there was technology and spinning yarn from plant fiber Ramie Ramie the morning (such as hemp), the art of making a fabric from yarn that could be I see that. It has been speculated that it had been wearing clothes made ​​from this knitted fabric.

There is the presence of the clay figure that mimics the doll to the Jomon period, but the modeling of clay figures in abstract pattern hard to considered and representing the body decoration of fact, it is not clear how you're degree reflect the reality of clothes actual.