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Post by Otagiri Tatsuzou on Jan 6, 2005 0:02:08 GMT -5
The dress of foot-soldiers and cadets (kachi and wakato) should be, of course, crepe, striped habutaye, silk, pongee or cotton: all other stuffs must be renounced. Furthermore: Archers' and matchlockmen's dresses must be restricted to silk, pongee and cotton. Underlings and menials of all sorts must wear nothing but hemp or cotton cloth, either plain or dyed. Shoshi Hatto 1636 |
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Post by Otagiri Tatsuzou on Jan 6, 2005 0:05:36 GMT -5
And out of the Buke Shohatto 1615... There must be no confusion in respect of dress uniforms, as regards the materials thereof. The distinction between lord and vassal, between superior and inferior, must be clearly marked by the apparel. Retainers may not, except in rare cases by special favour of their lords, indiscriminately wear silk stuffs, such as Shiro-aya (i. e. undyed silk with woven patterns), Shiro-Kosode (i. e. white wadded silk coats), murasaki-awase (i. e. purple silk coats), lined murasaki-ura (i. e. a silk coat lined with purple); nori (i. e. white gloss silk), mumon (i. e. a silk coat without the wearer's badge dyed on it), Kosode (a coloured silk wadded coat). In recent times retainers and henchmen (soldiers) have taken to wearing rich damasks and silk brocade. This elaborate display was not allowed by the ancient laws and it must be severely kept within bounds. Buke Shohatto 1615 |
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Post by Otagiri Tatsuzou on Sept 23, 2005 10:28:55 GMT -5
:happy anniversary:
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