Sweatshirt - Kazami

Japanese: 汗衫 - かざみ
Sweatshirt - Kazami

There are two types of outerwear worn by young girls of the nobility: hare and ke. The body is made of two single-layered kimono with a hanging cuff and a board cuff, and both armpits are open. Hare is characterized by a long hem, and several layers of akome are layered on top of a hitoe, and outer hakama is worn over long hakama. For ke, a pair of kiri hakama is worn over the kiri hakama. From the Nara period to the early Heian period, an undergarment called kansan, which was worn by both male and female aristocrats, came to be used as outerwear, and became the clothing worn exclusively by young girls. The name probably changed from "kamusamu" to "kazami." The Pillow Book states, "In the spring, the sweat robe resembles azaleas and cherry blossoms, and in summer, green leaves and decaying leaves." Additionally, the Tale of Genji (Hotaru), states, "A child in the western pair is wearing a sweat robe made of iris-patterned lining and a thin indigo lining."

[Takada Yamato]

sweat gown
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sweat gown


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

公家(くげ)童女に用いられた上着で、晴(はれ)と褻(け)の2種がある。形式は、身頃(みごろ)が二幅単(ふたのひとえ)仕立て、垂領(たりくび)と盤領(あげくび)とがあったようで、両腋(わき)があいている。晴には裾(すそ)を長く引くのを特色とし、下に数領の衵(あこめ)を襲(かさ)ね単を着て、長袴(ながばかま)の上に表袴をはく。褻には切袴の上に、対丈(ついたけ)のものを用いた。奈良時代から平安初期にかけて、貴族の男女がともに用いた汗衫(かんさん)といわれる下着が上着として用いられるようになり、もっぱら童女の用いるものとなった。名称も「かむさむ」から「かざみ」になったのであろう。『枕草子(まくらのそうし)』に「など、汗衫は。尻長(しりなが)と言へかし」、「汗衫は春は躑躅(つつじ)、桜、夏は青朽葉(くちば)、朽葉」とあり、また『源氏物語』(蛍)に「菖蒲襲(さうぶがさね)の衵、二藍(ふたあゐ)の羅(うすもの)の汗衫着たる童(わら)べぞ、西の対のなめる」とある。

[高田倭男]

汗衫
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汗衫


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