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Back view of a black men's formal haori jacket displayed with its wide sleeves extended

Haori

Haori are hip- or thigh-length Japanese jackets worn over kimono, ranging from crested formal menswear to patterned fashion and performance garments.

Front view of a red-orange nineteenth-century furisode with long sleeves and embroidered decoration

Furisode

Furisode are long-sleeved kimono whose materials, sleeve length, and coordination express occasion, age convention, and changing ideas of formality.

Light summer kimono patterned with geometric warp and weft kasuri

Kasuri

Kasuri is Japanese yarn-resist patterning in which selected warp or weft threads are dyed before weaving and aligned to form motifs in the cloth.

Yūzen-dyed summer kimono with crickets, grasshoppers, cages, and pampas grass

Yūzen Dyeing

Yūzen is a family of pictorial paste-resist dyeing methods used especially for Japanese kimono, combining fine outlines with separately applied colours.

Shibori-dyed kosode fragments with grapevine and fence patterns

Shibori

Shibori is a family of Japanese resist-dyeing techniques that shape, bind, stitch, fold, or compress cloth before it is dyed.

Pair of woven straw Japanese zori sandals viewed from above

Zōri

Zōri are flat Japanese thong sandals whose materials and form range from woven-straw workwear to formal footwear for kimono ensembles.

Long Japanese silk obi with colourful textile patterns on a dark ground

Obi

An obi is a Japanese sash whose dimensions, textile, knot, and accessories help structure kimono dress and express occasion and formality.

Edo-period woodblock print of two women wearing patterned yukata after a bath

Yukata

Yukata are unlined casual kimono associated with bathing, inns, summer festivals, fireworks, dance, and warm-weather leisure.

Edo-period silk kosode robe with a dark ground and orange tree decoration

Kimono

Kimono are straight-seamed wrap garments whose materials, decoration, layering, and accessories communicate season, occasion, age, taste, and formality.