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The ancient costume of the Japanese Samurai had a Suzaku wear, can any of you send me a picture of it?

I couldn't find a picture of a suzukuri, but here is a picture of a straight jacket, which is a variation of the suzukuri, so it's not too far off

In fact, the straight jacket dates back a long time. For a long time, the V-shaped "plunging neckline" of the kimono was used as a commoner's garment, as opposed to the rounded "upper neckline" of the kimono. In the latter part of the Heian Period, the simple design and ease of movement led to its gradual adoption by the samurai class. In the Kamakura period, it became the usual uniform for the Shogunate (at this time, the uniform for the upper echelon of the samurai was the mizukan). In the latter part of the Kamakura period, the naginata eventually replaced the mizukan and became the representative uniform of the samurai class. In addition, during the Muromachi period, the straight drape had also become a type of dress, and was one of the common garments used by the samurai family.

By the Edo period, the naginata became the most advanced form of dress other than the sash (when attending a grand ceremony, the naginata was worn with a long hakama underneath). At the end of the Shogunate, during the Restoration period, it became the formal dress code for public officials and daimyo to wear a hat with a turban wrapped around the head and a kimono. At the beginning of the Meiji period, the straight jacket was also used by unofficial samurai as a uniform for their duties. In September of the fifth year of the Meiji era, at the opening ceremony of the railroad between Shimbashi and Yokohama, high-ranking officials such as Takamori Saigo and Shigenobu Okuma wore the kimono. It was not until November when the Imperial Government announced that all court officials would switch to Western-style dress that the straight-laced dress system was abolished.

At present, yagura musicians, shrine priests, and grand sumo judges still wear the kimono.

The nigori has evolved since the Muromachi period, and has been broadly categorized into three types: the nigori, the omotori, and the suzukuri. Unlike the ogata and the suzukuri, the naginata has a lining sewn into it, while the former two have additional buttons and kiku knots compared to the naginata. Both the straight jacket and the tatami jacket have round buttons, while the plain jacket has long leather straps. In general, there is not much difference in appearance between the straight and the large pattern, which, as the name suggests, has a printed and dyed family pattern on it.

The suzukuri was developed from the omotori in the mid- to late Muromachi period. In contrast to the Omori, which had breast buttons, dew, chrysanthemum knots, and round buttons, the Suzuri was made with leather buttons (both the Omori and the Suzuri were made with leather buttons in Kabuki costumes), and was therefore also called "belted straight". In addition, the kimono is characterized by the slightly smaller size of the kimono's large prints.