[The Ancient Period]
The Jomon period
It seems that they didnﾕt have the textile techniques. So it seems that they covered their middle with the animals' skin , feathers, and the bark.
Women wore “kantoui” which was drilled a hole in its middle of a cloth. On the other hand, men wore “kesai” which was winded a cloth as it was. It says in “Gishiwajinden”, Chinese history, that the characteristics in those days was looked like the example above.
A woman wearing a straw raincoat and an animals' skin
A Japanese woman wearing a kantoui
An ancient medium
The Ancient Period
The Yamato Imperial Court Period