Nowadays, kimonos are not often worn in Japan, what festivals do they wear kimonos for?

Japanese people wear dignified kimonos when attending crown ceremonies (coming-of-age ceremonies), weddings, funerals, festivals, kendo, kendo, kendo, kendo, kendo, kendo, tea ceremonies, flower ceremonies, graduation ceremonies, banquets, yarugaku, cultural performances, and when celebrating traditional festivals in Japan.

The culture and etiquette of wearing kimono is known as the Way of Dressing. The kimono contains nearly 30 important intangible cultural assets of Japan related to dyeing and weaving techniques and more than 50 traditional crafts designated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. Echigo Uebu, Kochigaya Communicator and Koshiro Communicator, which make kimono, have been registered as World Intangible Cultural Heritage.

"Kimono" was called "udono" or "kumono" before the Tokugawa Shogunate. The fixed use of the term "kimono" is a concept that emerged after the Tokugawa Shogunate and the contact with Western culture.

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Precautions for Wearing:

When wearing kimono, it is important to note that there is a method of covering the left lapel and the right lapel of the kimono. Generally speaking, the right lapel is worn close to the chest, and the left lapel is covered with the right lapel, which is called the "right front". "The other way around is "left front".

The way to wear a kimono is "right front" for the living, and "left front" for the dead, because the Japanese believe that the world after death is the opposite of the world before life.

The "right-front" style is said to have been influenced by ancient Chinese clothing, and it is also said that the Japanese use their right hand, and therefore customarily wear their swords on their left side, and if they adopt the "left-front" style, the left lapel will affect their movements when they pull out their swords, and their movements will not be smooth.

Many people don't know this saying, wear kimono right lapel with left lapel, even many celebrities are wearing the right lapel with left lapel, for example, Eva, Eva Yang to participate in a program on this error, which is incorrect.

Dress taboos

Japan has clothes "soul" of the custom: people either in the pillow of the dead, or climbed to the roof towards the mountains and the sea, or waved the dead clothes loudly call the dead back.

To wash the used clothes for the dead, to face the north and wash, noon and a half drying. After washing and drying, must be neatly folded, collection of a period of time and then beat a few times with a stick, the living can wear. Therefore, people in the daily washing clothes, are never drying towards the north, and not hanging outside at night.

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