Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles, Smith, A. D. Howell, Koop, Albert J. (Albert James), 1877-1945 · London : Printed under the authority of H. M. Stationery Off. · leaf 68
44 DRESS OF MILITARY COURT OFFICIALS. Courtiers acting as zuijin or bodyguards of the Emperor, princes and nobles, wore a special costume. Their ho was of the ketsuyeki (or ketteki, “ open-sided "j1 variety, which differed in cut from the hoyeki type already described (p. 21) in having the sides… … Fig. 25. Oikake-kammuri. the bottoms of the sleeves downwards, the back longer than the front,2 and no ran or kakabukuro. The happi worn under the ho was of the kuro-happi variety, black, with open sides, united, however, at the bottom by a deep hem with projecting flaps (as in the case of the…
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