How Women Dumped Men With Kimono Sleeves in Japan #Shorts

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The sleeves of kimono are very long, and may get in the way of eating a meal or doing daily chores. Why do we need such long sleeves?

1. Ancient times:
To bring in good luck and drive away evil spirits
2. Heian period:
To express emotions without speaking
3. Edo period:
For fashion and to represent an unmarried woman

From ancient times, the fluttering of clothes is believed to bring in good luck or drive away evil spirits. This is why, for example, traditional restaurants and hotels have the 暖簾 noren entrance curtains (shinto shrines with many flags too) and kimono sleeves were originally created long too.

Eventually from the Heian period (794~1185), it began to be used to express a woman’s feelings/emotions. By swinging their sleeves in certain ways, women (of the aristocrats’ class) told men if they liked him or not without speaking, in an era when reticence and emotionlessness was the standard for a beautiful woman.

Even today, being dumped by someone is expressed as 振られる FURERU in Japanese, which means “be swinged/shacked.”

From the Edo period (1603~1868), the 250 years of peace helped the development of fashionable clothing. Long sleeves became more of something to simply make women look more beautiful and they began to represent unmarried women who needed to appeal their prettiness to men. In other words, once you get married, you would wear a kimono with shorter sleeves.

Today, we have carried on the kimono culture of the Edo period and long sleeves are believed to be part of the fashionable design.

By the way, you can keep small items and handkerchiefs in the long sleeves as pockets too, so they can actually be useful sometimes.

If you’d like to learn more about Japanese traditional culture, Kyoto, and social problems in Japan, please check out my channel & subscribe!

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[herzen]

Could you make a video on how exactly the women used their sleeves to express their emotions? I find it really interesting!

[lwolfstar]

That's very similar to fan communication in Europe around the same time!

[beverlyjohnson]

Kimonos are so beautiful . The art of putting them on is wonderful.

[Void_Mother]

The way women fluttered their sleeves to express emotion without sound reminds me of what women in Victorian England used to do with personal fans, there's a whole silent language and it's astounding

[LetsaskShogo]

▼Learn more about this topic▼
Stroll Through the Heart of Kyoto Wearing Your Favorite KIMONO and Get Dressed by Professionals

*The content is based on personal studies and experience
There is no intention of denying other theories and cultural aspects

The sleeves of kimono are very long, and may get in the way of eating a meal or doing daily chores. Why do we need such long sleeves?

1. Ancient times:
To bring in good luck and drive away evil spirits
2. Heian period:
To express emotions without speaking
3. Edo period:
For fashion and to represent an unmarried woman

From ancient times, the fluttering of clothes is believed to bring in good luck or drive away evil spirits. This is why, for example, traditional restaurants and hotels have the 暖簾 noren entrance curtains (shinto shrines with many flags too) and kimono sleeves were originally created long too.

Eventually from the Heian period (794~1185), it began to be used to express a woman’s feelings/emotions. By swinging their sleeves in certain ways, women (of the aristocrats’ class) told men if they liked him or not without speaking, in an era when reticence and emotionlessness was the standard for a beautiful woman.

Even today, being dumped by someone is expressed as 振られる FURERU in Japanese, which means “be swinged/shacked.”

From the Edo period (1603~1868), the 250 years of peace helped the development of fashionable clothing. Long sleeves became more of something to simply make women look more beautiful and they began to represent unmarried women who needed to appeal their prettiness to men. In other words, once you get married, you would wear a kimono with shorter sleeves.

Today, we have carried on the kimono culture of the Edo period and long sleeves are believed to be part of the fashionable design.

By the way, you can keep small items and handkerchiefs in the long sleeves as pockets too, so they can actually be useful sometimes.

If you’d like to learn more about Japanese traditional culture, Kyoto, and social problems in Japan, please check out my channel & subscribe!

[ericfleming]

Interesting. I'd always assumed it was meant to signal that the wearer was wealthy or privileged--you're obviously not someone who toils in the fields if your colorful clothing is going to get in the way. But now that you mention how it relates to noren that makes a lot of sense.

[theblackbaron]

I now want my girlfriend to express all her emotions through elaborate sleeve/ flag waving patterns :')

[colorlessoz]

As a woman, ANY long flowy sleeves are top tier playthings and if I knew how to convey if I liked someone or not with them I would do so every chance I got.

[aryssah]

They can also be used as giant pockets

[sora]

Kimono honestly deserve to be carried into the future for hundreds of years to come, they represent so much and are a centerpiece of Japanese traditional fashion

[johnphillips]

I love how traditions are really "just because", but they continously drive culture and asthetics. They deserve more credit than we give them

[Twick_Stick]

I really enjoy learning about Japanese culture

[s-a-r-a-h]

This is kind of similar to the usage of "water sleeves" in Peking opera

[LetsaskShogo]

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-Stroll Through the Heart of Kyoto Wearing Your Favorite KIMONO and Get Dressed by Professionals!
-Kimono OBI Belts Used to Be Tied Differently!? The History and The 3 Major Kinds of Obi Worn Today
-How KIMONO and YUKATA are Worn and The 4 Main Differences! Explained by Two Kimono Dressing Trainees

▼MY DREAM▼

“To make every Japan lovers’ dream come true, by making Japan a more secure, comfortable, and safer place for everyone to visit, study, and live in”

I will be using the profit I gain from this channel at restaurants, hotels, and cultural facilities in Kyoto to introduce them. The more you watch the videos on this channel, Kyoto and Japan will become a more exciting place, and you can support your own and others’ dreams in the future even more.

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●Membership benefits
-Limited behind-the-scene videos
-Weekly live stream
-Priority reply to comments

Every single yen we earn from this membership, we will be donating to groups of people who are fighting to solve social problems in Japan, the Japanese schools where foreign students can study, or use it to spread the works of people working with traditional culture in Japan to preserve the arts they are doing.

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The perfect channel to learn about Japanese culture and history in your spare time, during your walk to school or work, and when you are cooking or doing house chores.

Not only will I be covering the topics in this main channel, but also some topics that you will only be able to enjoy in the sub-channel, like answering questions I receive, and my opinions towards some of the comments.

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[angelicacantil]

kimono is so beautiful that i wish i can wear that someday!!!

[mspaint]

Thank you for taking your time to explain these things. Japan and NZ have often been sister school friends exchanges in my school years, as we're both fairly isolated islands, but I never had the money to do an actual cultural exchange program, so its been very fulfilling to see some of these. Befu Elementary School was the first time I met Japanese school kids, and well over a decade later I remember the sweetest little girl talking to me in perfect English and not believing my hair was naturally yellow as she braided it. She was the kindest little person, and we sat together on my small school bleachers as she insisted on doing my hair, and that act was honestly one of the kindest acts I remember still at 22, as at that age I was very lonely.

[carolgibson-wilson]

I really enjoy these small details explained. Thank you.

[random]

Hello, I love your stuff! Would you please consider making a book about the meanings of different motifs used in kimono??🙏There are no such resources in English.😢

[SuperiorKalosChampion]

I actually have some questions about this!

I’m a writer, and I have multiple characters of Japanese origins.

What would be considered offensive when designing their kimonos? I want to know just so I avoid doing that.

Another thing I’d like to know would be what would be offensive for the male kimono variant (also-what are the male variants called? I keep forgetting)

I’d also like to know what would be standard within a Kimono (aside from the long sleeves), and what type of fabric is usually used for a kimono?

[revessoumbres]

I would love to see him to do a reaction on Bill Wurtz' History of Japan...

edit: nevermind, I just found his reaction on it in my recommendations... ^^