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Yamada’s first Games outside Japan was Mexico City 1968, where he paired his classic Haori Hakama kimono with a Mexican sombrero.

Four hundred richly detailed color photographs bring out the distinctive traits of each furisode, uchikake or haori, and engaging text explains their history and myth.

With their faces white with rice powder and their purple color in their haoris they are pretty, and especially here where they do not feel the necessity of covering the obi with haori so they look less humpbacked than in fashionable Tokyo.

Kibei insisted on aiding Iémon; and Iémon did not dare to refuse his services in donning the haori.

Diving under the haori into which Chōbei was struggling he bounced out the front, leaving Chōbei on the ground and floundering in the folds of his garments, from which issued most violent language.