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Title: Japan and the Japanese illustrated
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
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Publisher: London : R. Bentley & son
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more spontaneous, more original, and in short more free, than is to be metwith amongst any other people in Asia. The national garment of the Japanese is the kirimon. It is a kind of opendressing-gown, made a little longer and more ample for women than for men. It iscrossed at the waist by means of a sash, which for men is made of a straight andnarrow piece of silk—for women, of a large piece of stuff elegantly tied at the back. The Japanese wear no linen, Imt they bathe every day. The women wear achemise of red silk crape. In summer, the peasants, the fishermen, the artisans, andthe coolies do their work in a state of almost complete nudity, and the womenmerely wear a single petticoat. During the rains they wear large cloaks of straw oroil-paper, and hats of bamboo bark, made like those of Java, in the form of shields. COSTUME. m 111 winter the working-men wear a jacket and trousers of blue cotton underthe kirimou, and the women one or several wadded mantles,^ but generally there is
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THE FINISHING TOUCH. no difference between their costumes, excepting in the nature of the materials. The nobles alone have a right to wear silk, and only dress richly to go to Court, or to ^ Persons of the middle class and of the nobility never go out without jacket and trousers. 40 LIFE IN JAPAN. Tuake visits of ceremony. The officers of the Government, and the Yakounines onduty, wear wide trailing trousers; and replace the kirimon by an overcoat with largesleeves, which however only comes down to the hips, and is rather elegantly cut. Every-one wears the same coverings for thefeet, which consist of sandals of plaitedstraw, or wooden slijipers fastened by acord in which the great toe is caught.When the roads are muddy, the peoplewear a simple wooden sole, resting upontwo smaller pieces placed crosswise.During the greater portion of the yearthe working people merely use strawsandals. Each, on returning to his ownhouse, or on presenting himself at thatof a stranger, removes his socks o

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