Color correction - Coloring

It was an ancient custom to wear a pure white kimono (shiromuku) at auspicious or inauspicious times such as childbirth, marriage, and funerals, but this term refers to changing into colored clothing after the custom. Today, it refers to the bride changing from her wedding attire, such as an uchikake (uchikake), furisode (furisode), and wedding dress, to a colored furisode, Homongi, or cocktail dress at the reception after the wedding ceremony. Recently, there has been a strong tendency to change clothes more frequently to show splendor, and boys may also change clothes. In the Heian period, it was customary for nobles and samurai families to dress children in white clothing after childbirth, and after seven or nine nights, they would change into colored clothing, called iro-naoshi. In the Muromachi period, samurai wedding ceremonies were held for three days, with the 3-3-9 ceremony repeated, and on the fourth day after the wedding, the bride changed from her white clothing to a colored one. From the mid-Edo period, the bride began to change clothes on the night after the 3-3-9 ceremony was completed.

[Kazuko Okano]

Originally, iro meant a plain white wedding kimono, an outfit used to express a feeling of mourning. In later times, as the color white came to be used more often at funerals, the word iro was disliked and people began to call it that. Until recent years, at funerals, it was customary in various places for those who had a close relationship with the deceased to wear a plain white wedding kimono and accompany the deceased to the funeral procession, and this was called irogi (colored clothing). The number of days this takes varies depending on the region, but once the period of fasting after mourning is over, people change into everyday clothing. This is the change of clothes at the funeral. The range of people who wore this color was roughly set, so you could tell their relationship just by looking at the clothing in the funeral procession.

[Hisako Maruyama]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

出産、結婚、葬儀など吉凶のとき、白無垢(しろむく)を着るのが古来の風習であったが、そのあと色物の衣服に改めることをいった。今日では、結婚式のあとの披露宴で、花嫁が打掛(うちかけ)、振袖(ふりそで)、ウェディングドレスなどの婚礼衣装を色振袖、訪問着、カクテルドレスなどに着替えることをいう。最近では本来の意味を脱して、色直しの回数を増し華麗さを見せる傾向が強く、男子も色直しをする場合がある。平安時代、公家(くげ)や武家では出産後、小児に白装束を着せ、七夜あるいは九夜を終わると色直しといって、色のついた衣服に替える習わしがあった。室町時代の武家の婚礼式では、三三九度の式を3日間繰り返し、婚礼後4日目に嫁は白装束から色物に改めた。江戸中期からは式の三三九度が終わると、その夜に色直しをするようになった。

［岡野和子］

　もともとイロというのは白無垢のことで、忌みの心持ちを表すための服装であった。後世、葬礼のときに白い色が使われる場合が多くなって、シロということばを嫌ってイロと称したのである。葬礼の際には近年まで、死者と関係の深い者は、白無垢を着て野辺送りの供にたつ風が各地にあって、これをイロギ（色着）とよんだ。地方によって日数に差はあるが、喪のあとの精進(しょうじん)落しが済むと平常着に着替える。これが葬儀の際の色直しである。この色を着る人の範囲はだいたい決まっていたので、葬列の服装を見ただけで関係がわかるというものであった。

［丸山久子］

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