Horn-hiding - Horn-hiding

A type of headgear worn by women. Currently, brides wear it at weddings, but originally it was worn by women of wealthy families in the Edo period, and was used to protect against dust when going out, like a hand towel, and was removed when indoors. It was actually made of kneaded silk, so it was also called a "neri" hat or "age" hat, and the front hair and the topknot at the back were fastened with a silver hat pin with a family crest. The traditional "tsunokakushi" hat was called a "tsunoboshi," a black hat worn by old women at the Hoonko ceremony, as a warning against women showing their horns. It was not until the Meiji period that the "age" hat came to be called "tsunokakushi," with the warning not to show their horns even after marriage. Although it has a completely different form, a hat in the shape of the traditional "tsunoboshi" hat is used at funerals in the Kakegawa area of ​​Shizuoka Prefecture.

[Takeshi Endo]

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女性の被(かぶ)り物の一種。現在では花嫁が婚礼の際に用いているが、元来は江戸時代の富裕家庭の女性の被り物で、手拭(てぬぐい)と同じく外出の際のちりよけ用として使ったもので、室内では取り去るのを例とした。正しくは練絹(ねりぎぬ)でつくられたので練(ねり)帽子とも揚(あげ)帽子ともいい、前髪の部分と、後ろの髱(たぼ)の部分を銀製定紋付きの帽子針で留めた。古来の角隠しは角(つの)帽子といって、報恩講のおりに老婆がかぶる黒の帽子で、女性が角を出すことを戒めるものであった。これが、嫁しても角を出さないようにとの戒めを込めて、揚帽子をも角隠しというようになるのは明治に入ってからである。なお、形態はまったく違うものだが、静岡県掛川付近では古来の角帽子の形のものが葬儀に際して用いられている。

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