So you're interested in reenactment/historical costume recreation?

Museums or Artifact or Recreation Collections for Reference

• Museum Tips: flip between English and Japanese ver of the websites for navigation or further details on objects

• The Shosoin Repository Online Catalog - all items circa 750s CE, when they were deposited and maintained since.

• History of Costume in Japan - an online catalog of recreations of historical outfits maintained by the Costume Museum in Kyoto 

• Cultural Heritage Online - a conglomerated database with pictures of items in Japanese provincial and national museum collections.

• Dyeing & Weaving Festival's Japanese Clothing History - some recreations and some actual garments, with supplemental information.

• Tanbo-cho - a collection of SCA Reenactors with very well researched and explained tutorials on Japanese historical clothing

Clothing Glossaries: Womenswear   Menswear   Outfits by Era

Kosode 小袖 (main robe): Tsukime's Overview  Kitsune's Pattern  Ishiyama's Pattern Saionji's Overview

• Kosode Calculator by Tsukime

• Katabira Calculator by Rei (not a Kosode, but a main garment/robe)

• Unlined: Tsukime's 

• Padded: Tsukime's

• Color & Decoration Choice: Tsukime's  

• Upper Class Kosode: Tsukime

• Momoyama Uchikake: Tsukime

• Kamakura Uchiki: Tsukime's 

• Kamakura Uwagi: Tsukime's

• Gauze/Sheer Kosode Top Layer on Yoshiteru Ashikaga, 1577 Painting

  • Also known as "Summer Hitatare"

• Misc hitoe 単衣 (underrobes) Patterns by Anthony Bryant

Hakama 袴 (pants) Kitsune's  Ishiyama's  Eidou's

• Heian Nagabakama: Tsukime's 

  • for Ikanhitoe/Ikan level government workwear, these as well but with ties on the ends to hitch them up.

• Yoroi Hitatare (worn under armor, goes with a Hitatare Top) Hakama: Anthony Bryant's 

• Kataginu and Hakama Set (Kamishimo 上下/裃): Sharon Booth's

• Mobakama 裳袴 (skirt) Sharon Booth's 

• Ue no Hakama  for Sokutai level courtwear/rituals

• Mobakama (pleated wrap skirt) & Other Skirts/Aprons

Jackets:

• Hitatare 直垂: Anthony Bryant's  , Tenchikan-ni's 

• Doubuku 胴服

• Haori

• Happi (modern)

Round-Collar Robes (Court Wear) : 

• Sokutai 束帯 Overview (Highest Formality/Ceremonial Court Wear)

  • Ketteki no Hou 闕腋の袍 (Military Officials) Patterning by Bryant

  • Hoeki no Hou 縫腋の袍 (Civil Officials) Patterning for Noushi & Hoeki no Hou by Bryant

• Ikan 衣冠 Overview (Officials' Visiting the Imperial Palace Wear?)

  • Ikan no Hou 衣冠の袍 (basically Sokutai but with less - worn by attendants to those wearing Sokutai?)

• Noushi 直衣 Overview (Upper Rank Officials' Daily Wear) 

  • Anthony Bryant's Patterning for Noushi & Hoeki no Hou

  • Costume Museum's Recreations of a Winter Noushi & a Summer Noushi

  • Eventually will link here: Choi Min's Noushi attempt/explanation

• Kariginu 狩衣 Overview (Lower Rank Officials' Work/Daily Wear) 

  • Eventually will link here: Choi Min's Kariginu

  • Anthony Bryant's Patterning for Karigi'nu, Suikan, & Ko'noushi  

  • Suikan 水干: Ishiyama's

  • Kachie 褐衣 (Imperial Guard Wear): Patterning by Bryant the Costume Museum's Recreation

• Seaming the Round Collar by Sewing Bunny Workshop

Hats

• Japanese Sedge Hats by Oribe Tsukime 

• Wimples and Zukin 頭巾 by Ki no Kotori, all other of Kotori's various head-covering research

• Eboshi 烏帽子 by Anthony Bryant , by Ishiyama 

• Tate-Eboshi 立烏帽子 Documentation by Ishiyama

• Tea Master's Hat by Oribe Tsukime

• Ichime-gasa 市女笠 Pilgramage Hat (the whole outfit is called tsubo-shōzoku 壺装束) by Sugawara Naeme Class Handout and Pictures Of 

• Kanmuri 冠 for Courtwear

  • Courtwear sometimes called 衣冠単 or 冠直衣 because of this hat

Shoes

• Tabi 足袋 (socks): Ishiyama's 

• Waraji 草鞋 (Straw Sandals):