Gofuku (¤´ ¤Õ ¤¯) word is generated from the Three Kingdoms period of China,
Soochow and Japan's business activities in textiles and clothing sewing method has been brought to Japan's sake. In a more precise level, Gofuku term refers specifically to high-level kimono silk for the fabric,
but something in cotton kimono would use "too complex" to refer to. Gofuku the past with the kimono is the difference between the two concepts (due to aristocratic style of kimono worn by most is not from Soochow but from the Tang Dynasty,
while the type of clothing previously also known as "Don clothes"), but today almost two concepts overlap. Now many shops selling kimonos, the sign would read, "Gofukuya" (Kure clothes Uk), showing that two had been largely synonymous with the word of
Kimono Japanese civilians came by the Soochow-style heavily influenced the establishment of sewing, so called "Wu clothes." The nobility of clothing are subject to impact deeper after the Tang Dynasty, known as "Tang suit." Starting from the Kamakura period,
nobles and samurai gradually began wearing Gofuku at home, from the Muromachi period began to the upper nobility began to wear Gofuku.
Now that Japan's garments can be divided into modern clothing, "tailor", that is the style came from Europe,
and traditional clothing. The earliest kimono deeply because of the Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges, serving impact of the Han in ancient China, in particular the history of Japan's Kofun period (equivalent to China's
Jin Dynasty and Northern and Southern Dynasties period). However, the Heian period (equivalent to late Tang and Song Dynasty), as the result of both internal and external conditions on the changes in the temporary interruption of communication,
Japanese culture has entered a highly localized development period (also a self-isolation period), the structure is thus kimono also has its local color.
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