Description
**In order to truly appreciate the lustrous weave of this gentleman’s Nagajuban, please click on the closeup of the textile…
This understated Kimono is woven of a gauzy “ro” or “sha” silk with a thin shiny muted red thread interwoven in the overall design. This weave is a descendant of that ancient gauze weave. Elegant silk gossamer’s, silks with a loose open mesh, also known as “Karami Ori,” have been used for Imperial Coronation ceremonies from earliest times in Japan, as silk was only worn by members of the Court. This is demonstrated by the examples of silk gauze in the Shoso-in, the repository of Japanese treasures for centuries.
The lightweight, open mesh effect was achieved by twisting the warp threads in pairs between every throw of the shuttle, thereby leaving small open spaces between all the transverse threads of the weft…a complicated weave that, at one time, was considered too impossible to produce.
This particular Kimono is typical of those chosen by men, as they are usually more subdued with little or no patterning, unlike those of their female counterpart. It was woven sometime in the mid Twentieth Century in Japan. All Kimono or Nagajuban are created from several panels of silk, always the same width and length, which have been prepared in advance by the weaver, dyer and/or artist. This is a prime example of a Japanese man’s “Nagajuban” or Under-Kimono. The Nagajuban itself is a remarkable illustration of how much artistic effort the wealthy and noble individuals in old Japan expected from their daily wear, for this garment was not intended for anyone in society to admire; but, instead was solely intended for the pleasure of the individual in his own home…an enormous expense lavished on oneself.
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