Asking about Japanese kimono

Kimono is the national costume of Japan. Before the Edo era, it was called Five Blessingg, and the words came out: ancient story, Japanese record, a dream from a window. Before kimono was called, Japanese clothing was called "wearing things", while in ancient Japan, Wufu was a kind of "wearing things".

Kimono can be divided into public work and martial work. Now the so-called kimono, in fact, was small sleeve in ancient times. The appearance of small sleeve started from the Muromachi era, and the white sleeves of nobles gradually became the clothes of ordinary people. "Things to wear" include not only "Wu clothes", but also shoulder clothes, hunting clothes in peacetime, etc. These are not from Wu clothes, but from local traditional costumes. Twelve orders were improved from Shang Tang clothes in Nara era, and then changed and innovated.

Before the Tokugawa shogunate, kimono was called "persistence" and "martial arts". The word "fixed use of kimono" is a concept produced in contact with western culture after Tokugawa shogunate.

The Essentials of Clothing in the Edo period in Japan pointed out: "[Kimono] follows the costumes of the Tang Dynasty, but the production is similar. The communication between this country and China also began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. The court ordered the ministers to take the ancient clothes as an example to compromise the Han and Tang systems, and the good ones followed the bad ones. The cultural relics in this state are hard to define.

Please refer to Baidu Encyclopedia for details.