Juban (undergarment) - Juban

Japanese: じゅばん(襦袢) - じゅばん

Undergarments for traditional Japanese clothing. There are hadajuban (undergarments) worn directly against the skin, halfjuban (half-length juban) that is somewhere between undergarments and long juban, tsuitake (long sleeved juban), and long juban (wide-sleeved juban worn between hadajuban and long gi). The kanji characters ju and han mean undergarments and half-length garments, respectively, and the word is said to be derived from the Portuguese gibão. Before the inner garments gradually appeared on the surface and became decorative, becoming kosode, they were called undergarments (shitagoromo), skin garments (hadaginu), and skin kosode (hadakosode). These were not called undergarments because they were worn over tops, undergarments, and undergarments, and it is believed that they were only called juban after the Muromachi period, when kosode became established.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

和装用の下着。肌に直接つける肌じゅばん(肌着)と，肌着と長じゅばんの中間的存在の半じゅばん，対丈（ついたけ），広袖で肌じゅばんと長着の間に着る長じゅばんがある。漢字の襦は肌着，袢は半身衣の意味があり，ポルトガル語のgibãoが語源ともいわれている。内衣がしだいに表面にあらわれ装飾化して小袖となる以前には，下衣（したごろも），肌衣（はだぎぬ），肌小袖（はだこそで）と呼ばれていた。これらを下着と称さなかったのは，下着は上着･中着･下着と重ねて着る着方であったからで，じゅばんという名で呼ばれたのは，小袖が定着した室町以降と思われる。

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