What is a Kimono? geisha, history, tradition, making process and trend now [HD]

[@terencereyes696]

This is just pure art. I myself have never seen a kimono in flesh and it'll be a dream to see or touch one. This craft is enough to make my tears fall.

[@IAmNotYourProblem]

Terence Reyes I’m currently starting to make one for myself. Originally I was just going to use my sewing machine, but I think out of respect for the craft, I’ll attempt to hand sew them ☺️

[@laurant4282]

@@IAmNotYourProblem Good Luck! Hope it comes out well

[@KiraDidNothingWrong]

WHY IS THIS SHOW SO RELAXING?!!?

[@Della0w0]

JAPAN IS THE LAND OF EARTH VERY HARD WORKER. I RESPECT JAPAN FROM BANGLADESH.

[@sarahlithium1680]

I watched this to help with a drawing I was doing of women in kimonos! Now I can draw one correctly! Great video!

[@med-2014]

Me too!!

[@40EntrepreneurDrive]

Fascinating! I did not realize that you caught a kimono that I owned was made up of basic rectangular pieces without curves. I also did not know that it was common practice to disassemble them for cleaning.

[@KIMONOSK]

Thank you for your comment. Kimono is a fascinating garment. There are cleaners in Japan that can care for the Kimono without taking it apart. Thank you for watching our video.

[@snottyspoon476]

Watching NHK World documentaries improves my English AND lets me know more about Japanese culture. Very beautiful, nice footage, relaxing and interesting at the same time.

[@kristenwinters7079]

I can't describe how in awe I am of the history behind this

[@snakebrains6928]

this video is really interesting! very informative! thank you for uploading!

[@fox_paw23]

Beautiful

[@KIMONOSK]

Thank you for your comment!

[@fox_paw23]

@@KIMONOSK No problem I love learning about history and other cultures

[@natebit8130]

Thank you for sharing the rules of wearing a Kimono.

[@catpeach326]

Kimono is beautiful.

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[@mrsmd4616]

The most beautiful clothing in history.

[@carolinemakunike1566]

I searched for this man's voice for sooo long 😭. I didn't know what to search online. I kept saying Japanese airtime filler with great narrator and I couldn't find anything.

[@Rod-bp8ow]

Kimono and designs layout are as 100%pure and recognized, its intricacies are exceptional and noteworthy in designs. It is protected by copyright, trademarks as well as registrations, to REGARD skillsmen and craftsmen and so as Women in its continuity of designs, as recognizably premium, and enlightening preserved and protected, from any 3D,4D designs or application, due to its HUGE difference. The PROFESSIONALISM is always Exceptionally regarded, rewarded, continuously, for it not to DETERIORATE and continue in its SHARPNESS of details as Thousands of YEARS continuosly preserved, for GENERATIONS, than that of an Algorithm 3 or 5D application based. Art appreciation are details and principles, emotions, and love of Work, emanated/exemplified statement 😊

[@znycelondon5313]

Very interesting. I learnt so much about the kimono.

[@swright9740]

Superbly informative

[@theajones6080]

Beautiful, beautiful pieces of fabrics. When they are assembled they seem mysterious and magical.

[@mardigra1916]

Treasure knot excellent

[@punimarudogaman]

Kim Kardashian should watch this

[@morganolfursson2560]

why ?

[@imtryingmybesttolivewell4691]

Nah she shouldn't

[@ChristineSell-nf8eg]

She's not smart enough.

[@punimarudogaman]

​@@morganolfursson2560 search kim Kardashian kimono. you'll find the Backlash that forced her to change the name of her brand

[@NatashaSallesSoprano]

I’m Brazilian and I’m falling in love with this culture, but I couldn’t help finding it at the same time nice and weird when I heard “Carinhoso” by Pixinguinha at 5:06 😋

[@faizshazwan3144]

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[@raivennllagasoracion3072]

Kimono is the most popular in Japanese dress and culture

[@unknowncreature-0069]

1:33 what is in that tiny cage??

[@KIMONOSK]

It's a bird cage.

[@unknowncreature-0069]

@@KIMONOSK there doesn't seem to be a bird in there?

[@en1909s9iah]

la la la la la

[@林沅沅-p3l]

🥰beautiful

[@pheart2381]

my juban has a carriage design with two wheels. does anyone know what this design means?

[@クリームシチュー-b7d]

It's Goshoguruma (palace carriage), express gorgeousness of Heian aristocrats.

[@nathaliehaast421]

P Heart my kimono also have a carriage

[@aeea8318]

@@クリームシチュー-b7d thank you for this piece of information!

[@morganolfursson2560]

I studied wasai for over 10 years in Japan and NEVER understood why it had to be done sitting on the floor. I actually had to have a table made so that i could actually take the class, because after 4 hours on the ground i could barely stand. And after 6 months of using a table most of the other Japanese students started asking for tables and chairs like mine after using them a coupe of time. I get it that back in the old days it was just the norm in Japan to do house activities on the floor and most kimono were produced by families for the families so it was definitely a family activity, transmitted mostly from mothers to daughters. But honestly in the 21st century 95 out of 100 Japanese live , eat and work at tables, sitting on chairs and most of them feel excruciating pains working at ground level. Some Kimono tailoring and stitching school refuse the use of chairs and tables (as if it had anything to do with the quality of the final product) and claim that real kimono must be made on the floor. I find this utterly ridiculous and completely unsubstantiated. I have once shown the teacher of one of those traditionalist schools, two identical Black Crested Kimono made from the same type of fabric, once made by a highly qualified women working at a table and one made by a new graduate from the very school this teacher worked for and made on the floor, and she of course found that the one made by the expert seamstress and tailor who has had 30 years of practice was absolutely flawless. She didn't like my little trick, but my point was made anyway. So you people out there interested in making kimono, do not break your backs on the floor to make them. Just get a regular table and place a long board on it , add a chair and you're set and will be able to work for hours and hours without any pain.

[@Lily-gz3ip]

10:30 machine name?

[@KIMONOSK]

It's Teoriki we called. Here's a Teoriki for household use. www.amazon.co.jp/Clover-%E6%89%8B%E7%B9%94%E3%82%8A%E6%A9%9F-%E5%92%B2%E3%81%8D%E3%81%8A%E3%82%8A-40cm-30%E7%BE%BD%E3%82%BB%E3%83%83%E3%83%88/dp/B00165JIKG

[@Lily-gz3ip]

@@KIMONOSK ohh thankss

[@OlesiaRa]

who's the artist behind the intro please anyoneee?

[@TheMakoyou]

Yoshida Brothers. They are a unit of brothers who play the shamisen (a traditional Japanese musical instrument).

[@morganolfursson2560]

Actually the seams are not all sewn in straight line, far from it. There are curves at the sleeves with VERY precise angles depending on the type of kimono, the fabric it is made of, and the gender and age and even profession of the wearer. Same with the collar which is never sewn in straight line and varies a lot depending again on the gender, age and profession. For instance the collar and sleeves of the kimono of a male or a female are sewn differently. It is also sewn differently depending if the male is rather muscular or slim, or if the female has large or small breasts. As for the profession, the Kimono of a Kabuki actor , a geisha, a housewives, a traditional inn owner, a dancer or a musician are sewn differently too. Kimono sewing techniques are extremely complex and varied. There is a reason it takes 10 years of study and practice to be hired as a professional kimono tailor and seamstress. And this is just for the most basic kimono. A tailor and seamstress for the most extravagant kimono, like Kabuki and Noh outfits, or Geisha and Bridal wear require over 20 years of study and months if not years, just to produce a single gown. Do your homework Begin Japonology, kimono are not simple garments with basic and simple tailoring and stitching techniques. I studied basic technique for 10 years (in Japan) and a bit of advanced techniques, and i still struggle sometimes, but although i have only learned western clothing for a couple of years with my aunt who is a professional seamstress, i can make tailored suit, a pair of trousers, shirts, dress and skirts without any problem. I am telling you with all due respect to western clothing which i do find far more diverse and exciting than Kimono, when it comes to tailoring and stitching nothing is more complex than making a Kimono.

[@morganolfursson2560]

@@Onnya-Lemox Hi. What do you mean by pattern design, do you want to learn about the different style of kimonos or the different patterns decorating them ? I would say that as a painter, the best source of inspiration you will ever have on how to represent Kimono are Ukiyoe Bijin Prints (just copy paste that on google image and you'll have tons of material for inspiration). No artist has even been better at rendering the beauty of Kimono than the masters of the Ukiyoe, and especially Hiroshige and Okusai and the master of them all when it comes to depicting females wearing Kimono, the great Utamaro . But there are two artists which has been overlooked by history and are yet one of my favourite for the quality of their woodblock prints and design and how they rendered the beauty of Kimono, Suzuki Harunobu and Katsushika Oi who was Hokusai's own daughter and a remarkable painter. So if you want inspiration i would suggest you start with them. Especially look at the work of Lady Katsushika Oi who was the first female artist to ever study western painting and incorporate those techniques in traditional japanese Ukiyoe. Her use of light especially in her night scenes lit by candles, is phenomenal.

[@morganolfursson2560]

​@@Onnya-Lemox The decoration of Kimono in Japan is highly symbolic and very codified. Even the use of colour has been dictated since the Heian period. There are entire essays that have been written about what colour(s) should be used for each kimono and all the Kimono makers in Japan today still live by those rules. Purple and mustard are a very famous colour combination as it means aristocracy, Orange can only be worn by the Imperial family, along with the 18 petals chrysanthemum pattern, red is usually for women and protects from evil, Green and brown represents spring, grey and pink is winter, green and white is summer along with light blue. Moon and pampas grass represent autumn, wave and rabbits represent devotion, hens roosters and chicks represent family, cranes represent eternal love, waves and hawks represent battle and determination, peonies and lions represent righteousness and piety, camellia represent grace and fleeting beauty, plum blossom represent perseverance and endurance, pines represent aging with grace, bamboo represent wisdom, and the combination of Pine, Plum and Bamboo represent the perfect combination and is knowns as Shouchikubai. Flowing water represents sensuality but also business and is often associated with women working in the red districts, which is why a Kimono in a purple shade, pattern with willow trees and water, underlined in white or yellow and worn with a red under-kimono immediately evokes a Geisha, while a black Kimono with a pattern of white Cherry blossom (representing purity and righteousness), worn with a pure white under-Kimono represent the wife of a warrior and sometimes the Warrior himself who sometimes wore Kimono with a symbolic pattern of Sakura because the flower blooms only for a few days and then dies and falls and the life of a Samurai was supposed to be like the one of a Cherry blossom, pure and short. There are so many patterns and pattern combinations and they all tell a story. I would tell you to read the entire Genji Monogatari as Murasaki Shikibu was a famous trend setter for fashion and dictated rules that are still followed today by true kimono lovers. Although a much less tedious read would be the book called Kimono by Liza Dalby, which is not bad at all. Or the book of Kimono by Norio Yamanaka, although i am definitely not a fan of the author, who is WAY too nationalist.

[@aeea8318]

@@morganolfursson2560 wouaaa! Such a knowledge! 🤩 Thank you so much, I'm glad I read this, it's soo interesting!

[@frankozrin5611]

Forgot to mention that a kimono is influenced by earlier Chinese clothing.

[@SassafrasTee7366]

I want one

[@faizshazwan3144]

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[@meandwhoism]

6:50

[@mariarosaburi862]

Traducir al español por favor

[@aquicha8168]

I love Japan... Why did I have to European???

[@theyluvvskye]

watching this so i can confront somebody abt how it’s offensive to wear one so short and when she isn’t asian or japanese but asian fishes

[@ariamteclehimanot3970]

The leader of Japan should watch this

[@aeea8318]

Perhaps it's a stupid question... But why?

[@tanthiennguyen6101]

Titanium.....

[@lilicicaceae4994]

Runners for profit. Only treasure and stuff from a poor garment to hide the body from cold and dirt.

[@racerididi8365]

Kimono from china

[@TheMakoyou]

French was created by the Italians, English by the Germans, and bread by the Egyptians. Do you live with that in your mind. Do you live claiming it?

[@ijansk]

Kimono is Japanese. Stop talking nonsense.