As a traditional costume of the Yamato people, Japanese love for kimonos can be said to be seen by all in the world. Until today, we can still see Japanese women almost all choosing and dressing during traditional Japanese festivals, even on weekdays. On the streets of Japan, you can also see many women wearing kimonos, and this is also the most beautiful costume of Japanese women.
And everyone who has seen the kimono must have noticed a detail, that is, no matter what the occasion, the Japanese woman will wear a kimono with a similar The burden of pillows can be said to be one of the most distinctive signs that distinguish Japanese kimonos from traditional clothing from other countries.
And when it comes to what will be a "pillow" behind the kimono, this problem can be said to have been explained in many ways in recent years with everyone’s curiosity. One of the most popular is that this pillow is actually used for Japanese women to "sleep" because there were fewer people in ancient Japan, so in order to breed as many offspring as possible, women would carry a pillow behind them for sleeping.
For this explanation, we can only say that everyone’s ideas are really whimsical. The pillow-like decoration behind the Japanese kimono is actually not related to sleeping. I want to know what it is. , We must explore one or two from Japanese history.
The earliest Japanese kimono can be traced back to the Momoyama era in 1582-1600 AD. At that time, 丰臣秀吉 actively advocated exchanges and trade with overseas in Japan, and invited a lot of Western missionaries to Japan To preach.
And the Japanese talent at that time had just come into contact with the outside world. Have you ever seen this kind of missionary in Catholic robes? So everyone was very curious, and then there was something to learn. This was the prototype of Japanese kimono, which was later influenced by Korean traditional costumes and gradually evolved into what we see today.
As for the "pillow" behind the kimono, in fact, this was the earliest way to fix the belt that imitated the loose robe made by Catholic missionaries.
In the early days of the appearance of kimono, in order to fix the loose robe on the body, people invented the design of using a "rope" about 3 or 4 cm wide to wrap around the body to make a belt. History This kind of design first appeared in 名古屋 and Hakata area in Japan, and then gradually spread in other places.
Later in the Edo period of Japan, the design of this kimono began to change again. The waistband that was originally only three fingers wide began to become wider and wider. Nowadays, this kind of waistband that needs to be folded in half before being tied on the waist, but this kind of very wide waistband also has a more serious problem, that is, because the waistband is too wide, the woman’s figure will be blocked by the thick cloth. A cylindrical body like a bucket.
So under such circumstances, women who love beauty came up with a way to tie the waistband and make the knot of the waistband as close to the chest as possible to emphasize the curve of the body.
is the same as a boy's belt. In the beginning, the knot of the Japanese kimono belt was also knotted on the front of the body, and the knot is very small, and it does not look like a pillow now. Big. But for women’s kimonos, the significance of the knots is to attract attention. Therefore, when Japanese women wear kimonos, the knots start to get bigger and bigger. In the end, the knots are so big that women can’t see them when they put on the kimono. Toes, just like pregnant, this dress is really unsightly, and the action is also very affected. When
was finally caught in the early Edo period, Japanese talents finally had a fantastic idea-to move the knot behind them. Basically, the kimonos we see now follow this design.
So when we talk about kimono in the future, don’t say that this pillow is used for sleeping, otherwise it will be a joke.
