Kasa (hat) explained
A is any one of several traditional Japanese hats.[1] These include and .
Grammar and etymology
is the correct way to pronounce the word when it stands alone. causes to change to when it is preceded by another word specifying the type of hat, as in .
shares its etymology with the Japanese word for "umbrella" (also pronounced, but written as Japanese: {{linktext|傘).
Types of
A number of different styles of exist. Varieties of were used throughout most all levels of Japanese society.
Some types of include:
- : a wickerwork made of shaven bamboo or wood.
- : a wickerwork . An is a straw hat of the type traditionally worn in some Japanese folk dances.
- : a deep wickerwork .
- : a type of commonly worn by samurai and (foot soldiers). The samurai class in feudal Japan, as well as their retainers and footsoldiers, used several types of made from iron, copper, wood, paper, bamboo, or leather.[2] [3] almost always had crests on them.
- : typically a conical with a flat top, often worn by .
- : a bamboo for traveling with a wide, flat shape that offered protection from the sun and rain. Favored by, couriers who regularly traveled between Edo and Kyoto.
- : a conical, pointed wickerwork made of sedge. This hat shape is called a nón lá in Vietnam or do'un in Cambodia.
- : a Buddhist mendicant's . A woven rice-straw worn by mendicant Buddhist monks, the is made overlarge and in a bowl or mushroom shape. Unlike an Asian conical hat, it does not come to a point, nor does it ride high on the head like a samurai's traveling hat, instead covering the upper half to two-thirds of the face, masking the identity of the monk and allowing him to travel undistracted on his journey.
- : (see)
- : a folded, famously worn for the Awa Dance Festival.
- : the family crest of Yagyū clan, not an actual kind of .
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Popovic . Mislav . Kasa – traditional Japanese hats . traditionscustoms.com . 19 March 2016 . https://archive.today/20160319211614/http://traditionscustoms.com/traditional-fashion/kasa-traditional-japanese-hats . 19 March 2016 . dead.
- Book: Tanaka, Fumon. Fumon Tanaka. Samurai Fighting Arts: The Spirit and the Practice. 2003. Kodansha International. 978-4-7700-2898-3. 46.
- Book: Ratti. Oscar. Westbrook. Adele. Secrets of the Samurai; A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japan. 1991. C. E. Tuttle. 978-0-8048-1684-7. 219.
