So you are interested in Japanese Clothing.  What is the next step?  If you are interested in creating, designing, or just wanting to learn more, these resources are the ones that I use in my research and for teaching.  I have put a little blurb next to each so you know what you will find at each site.

I hope you enjoy these and if you have questions or want to learn more, please contact me and I am willing to help.

THL Oda Umi

Resources and links:

This is a Laurel from the Kingdom of the West in Japanese studies and research.  Saionji no Hana aka LIsa Joseph.  She has many blog posts on the history of clothing, doing Japanese in rapier, and How to do a Samurai for the SCA Guy blog.  http://wodefordhall.com/

This is a link to a the British Museum on jimbaroi the fighting vest that His Royal Majesty,  Seto-Heika wears.  https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/object/jimbaori-samurai-overarmour-coat

And this one 

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/102921

And another

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/55965

THL Yamamura Kitsune’s hakama and Kosode patterns: https://yamamura.weebly.com/documents.html

General information on swords: https://royalarmouries.org/stories/our-collection/japanese-warriors-medieval-and-modern/

An interesting article on Japanese and Spanish soldiers. https://www.oddhistorian.com/at-cagayan-40-spanish-soldiers-made-a-stand-against-an-army-of-samurai/?fbclid=IwAR3l-EIT7X0OOkkGtFw_MSY8gSI_ylci6jpfeQb9c20HeyYv8-AYy1Wxjic

THL Tsukime has a website with a lot of articles of interest:

https://sites.google.com/site/oribetsukime/classes?fbclid=IwAR1Tauv4xIGvzTY505D6sM-rQhNjWL0m2AetDa5U6TuA0lwQa0eBdXXGHUo

This is the Japanese Classroom of the Middle Kingdom website which links various artists works, including my own.

http://mononoaware-sca.com/traveling-classroom