Japanese kimonos are elegant and graceful, full of feminine beauty, and the multi-layered clothing highlights the Japanese folk style, which can be seen at a glance.
Although the design concept of modern kimono is borrowed from the Han and Tang Dynasties, and then continuously improved, but in ancient Japan, its dyeing and weaving technology and clothing technology are also quite famous, which originated 1200 years ago in the Western Jinweed, known as "Japanese Shu Brocade", together with the mainland's Yunjin, Zhuangjin, Shu Brocade, Song Brocade and known as the "Five Famous Brocades of the East", is a traditional handicraft art belonging to Japan's national treasure level, which shows that the dyeing and weaving technology of ancient Japan has reached a state of divine immersion.
To say that the origin of fabrics in ancient Japan, we have to start from the Yayoi culture era, this era is 300 BC - 250 AD, such a long period ago, how to find the wisps?
Scientists have found some of the remains of looms in The Tangzichi in Nara Prefecture and Nobu in Shizuoka Prefecture, and found "clues" of fabrics at the bottom of the earthenware.
It can be inferred from this that people had already begun to study how to weave cloth at that time.
Unlike Chinese silk fabrics,
The raw materials of ancient Japan were extracted from plants, and fibers were extracted from hemp, vine, portuguese, and basswood plants.
From the research of later generations, it can be seen that the fabrics of this period in ancient Japan were still in their infancy, and there were no mature or representative clothes, but later with the help of "external force", its textile technology jumped up, not only that, even the dyeing technology was rapidly improved, and this "external force" was China.
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In the Asuka and Nara periods, a large number of Chinese fabrics entered the ancient Japanese region together with Buddhist culture, and Chinese fabric models provided experience for dyeing and weaving designers to learn from.
In the collections of Shosoin and Horyu-ji Temple, you can also see some Chinese folklore characteristics in the fabrics of that time, so it can be said that this period can really be regarded as the beginning of the dyeing and weaving process of ancient Japan, and the production of kimonos for future generations also benefited from the handicrafts of this period.
The weaving process of nishiki, aya, and luo, the dyeing process of hanging valerian, wax valerian, origami, embroidery, and knotted, a variety of traditional crafts together constitute the beautiful nishiki Ayara of ancient Japan.
It has to be said that the "ambition" of the ancient Japanese people is quite large, they are not satisfied with the stay of beauty, because they have been pursuing more beauty, not only seeking more ways in the fabric, but also trying more changes in the dyeing and decoration of the fabric.
As can be seen from the twelve single garments and belts of the Heian and Kamakura periods,
Ancient Japanese clothing designs used bold bright colors and overlapped them to achieve the effect of layering without cumbersome,
The strong color contrast highlights the aristocratic court style, beautiful and fashionable, there are as many as 8 different colors on a piece of clothing, the background color is a fine pattern of color stitching, the whole dress is woven with patterns of different colors, more colorful than the spring of nature, especially the ornamentation of flowers, like a jumping seven-colored cloud, a fairy who is alive and free.
From the finished process of clothing, it can be seen that Nishiki, Aya, and Luo are very time-consuming, and this also requires a lot of manpower and continuous experimentation, which shows how persistent the ancient Japanese people are in this matter, and we can also know that the attention of Japanese people to appearance is not the beginning of the later change of thinking, but the "custom" that has been handed down from ancient Japan.
In ancient Japan, both nobles and ordinary people had a strong pursuit of clothing, but every country had a common characteristic, that is, the difference between "noble" and "poor". It was the same for ancient Japan,
The clothes of the nobility belong to the "woven appearance",
What is a weave? Simply put, it is unique to high society, and the costumes at that time will be made for different people.
For the gods, royal families, nobles, secretaries of state, etc. there are differences in clothing, and the sewn weaving and double fabrics made are their tailor-made,
In today's terms, sewing and weaving is embroidery, and double fabric is double-layer fabric, and these fabrics also reflect their high-grade nature from the side because of the dignity of the wearers.
If it is said that the clothing patterns of the nobles come from the sky, then the materials taken by the common people are more grounded, and their forms are not inferior to the noble costumes, and the various patterns of plants, animals, rivers, mountains and fields make the clothes of this period a widely spread good story, and the discovery of these clothes is also like the world showing how unique the wisdom and beauty of the ancient Japanese people are.
It is not entirely accurate to say that ancient Japan discovered beauty, because ancient Japan continued to create beauty. Soon after this, it entered another heyday - the era of small sleeves, and this was due to the import of European culture, the new culture of the Netherlands, Britain, Portugal and other places made new varieties introduced one after another, and the new fashion trend of ancient Japan was opened, such as the silk, tang stack, more yarn, luosha, velvet, etc. opened a beautiful new era in ancient Japan, and also opened a new fashion trend in high society. Although the general commoners could not enjoy these fabric raw materials, there were more and richer developments on the basis of small sleeves.
The small sleeves, which existed in the ancient Nara period, are the prototypes of ancient kimonos, which are almost the same as modern kimonos, the same as the upper and lower conjoined, with belts around the waist, and the complete collection can be seen in the Shosoin Temple.
It is worth mentioning that the dyeing and graining technology of ancient Japan is also quite outstanding, if only the textile process is difficult to reach its peak, when the traditional crafts such as textile and dyeing, tattoo technology have also reached the peak of the realm, in order to constitute a complementary beautiful legend,
The most famous of these is the three dyes and one pattern, which are: Yuzen dyeing, type painting dyeing, and longboard medium dyeing, and one pattern refers to: Edo small pattern.
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The weaving, dyeing and graining technology of ancient Japan can be seen that their clothes have been updated and developed.
Although clothes are not as prominent as jewelry or physical craft utensils, clothes are also indispensable and practical products in human activities, and they also play a role that cannot be underestimated in the development of human civilization.
It was precisely because of these cloud-like brocade and different beautiful discoveries in ancient Japan that it constituted a colorful costume culture, and at the same time created a unique aesthetic with a different style for the development of later generations.
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