Chris Banks at Military Odyssey 2013
Image courtesy of Stuart McGreggor| Dressing to impress... Chris wears a plain white silk SHITAGI (under shirt) beneath a gold and brown silk brocade KOSODE meaning "little sleeve", a type of KIMONO. Such garments were restricted to the SAMURAI class, although as time went by, even the merchant class began to wear rich clothes. By that point in the early to mid 17th century the SAMURAI who had been heavily influenced by Confucian thinking, had taken to wearing muted colours. Fortunately we're doing the earlier period when the warrior class looked like an explosion in a paint factory! |
