[Toraerie] History of Japanese dress in images web sites

[ester030 at umn.edu]

Hello,

Just in case people want a general overveiw before I picked out some of my 
favorite websites for an over veiw of Japanese historical dress. I am a 
very visual person, so most of what is here are pictures.

This one is very good about capturing the general fashion of the era at its 
height. It doesn't explain the pieces but is a good place to get a feel for 
the eras. I wouldn't recommend looking at the modern stuff, though, the 
some of the rules presented there apply, and lots of them don't.

http://web.mit.edu/jpnet/kimono/index.html

This one is really cool, but can be really hard to navigate the links 
without a better grasp on Japanese than I have.

http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/links_j.html

This one is really much more modern than I'd like, but it does give 
pictures of the types of kimono that were present. Ignore most of the 
accessories, but drool over some of the fabrics. Plus a really weird mix of 
translated and not vocabulary.

http://www.marquise.de/en/ethno/japan/kimonopic.shtml

Vocabulary! Very useful stuff (though you can ignore the obijime that 
didn't really exist in that form yet) especially if you want to google a 
certain kind of clothing.

http://www.marquise.de/en/ethno/japan/glossary.shtml

This is a good site, and built with historical reinactors in mind.

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/japanese/asuka.html

Happy hunting,
Beth