Artworks

Pair of men’s trousers (hakama)

Artwork · Anonymous · 15th century · hakama · Kyoto National Museum

A rare surviving textile of the period: hakama woven of bronze and white silk with floral roundels in green, yellow and orange, once worn by a samurai of high rank with a short, starched jacket bearing his family crest (mon). 1 Mason 2005, p. 178, fig. 207. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.