[The Edo Period(1600-1867)]

 

 
Edo shougnate held by Tokugawa Ieyasu avoided negotiation with the foreign county for 300 years, and built a severe feudal society.

The big caracteristic in this age is that the commoner class acquired a economical power. Thus the clothes which appeared in this age was made use of their townpeople's financial power and taste fully. And a luxurious townpeople's ornament of the fashion which are as luxurious as the samurai class surpassed appeared.


When the ornament of the fashion of the samurai class is a little mentioned, they wore a sokutai, a ikan, a hitatare, a kariginu, a daimon, and so on respectively in accordance with the importance of the ceremony as a full-dress. they also wore naga-kamishimo and kaishimo as a middle full-dress, and they were made of the hemp. Afterward, ryuumon, amber, bashou-hu,ro,and so on was used besides the hemp. There were many shou-mon's in the pattern of kamishimo.


In the girl's full-dress, juunihitoe and a keiko which were a court noble style ware just unusually used, but, generally, a uchikake and a waistcloth were. A uchikake was used from spring to autumn, and a waistcloth figure was the dress of the midsummer.


 

[The completion of the kosode]

The form of a early kosode changed gradually, and bcame an almost unchanged form with the present kimono in the Genroku age. It can be said that it was completed tentatively at this time about a kosode.
Thus a dyed pattern and a embroidery pattern, including a yuzen printing, completed coloring. And the construction of the patten of a kosode changed with having relation with the technology of the pattern expression, social conditions, the beauty conciousness in those days.


In the early stages of the Edo Priod, a keichou-moyou which was continution from the Momoyama Period took the greater part, and the kosode of a sou-moyou by a embroidery and a shuhaku competed in luxuriousness and beauty. In those days, a luxurious hitta-shibori and so on was prohibited because the law of prohibition against luxury was shown.


In the Edo Period middle, a genroku-moyou was popular. As for the pattern, it comes to be put on 2-3 steps in the shoulder and hem, and the parts of the material which wasn't used increased.


 

[Yuzen-zome]

In the Edo Period middle, a yuzen-zome was completed. “Some” means printing. By the printing, the technique to show various pattern freely was invented. By this, the pattern of a kosode was picture-like.


While the development of a obi was remaarkable. In the Edo Period, an obi became luxurious by increasing
both of the width and the length of the obi, and they learn to do various obi knot. This is a thing by the influence of the kabuki actor who reached prosperity at that time.

 

 

The Ancient Period

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The Edo Period

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