Samurai Armour Clothing - Roupas e Acessorios de Samurai - Okazaki Castle - Castelo de Okazaki

Added: Dec 18, 2008   By: athenathon77

Duration: 2:56

Channel: Travel

Visita ao Castelo de Okazaki. Vendo as vestimentas, armaduras, espadas katana, utensilios de guerra dos samurais. Bem legal. Talvez a imagem mais conhecida do "bushi", como é chamado o guerreiro medieval japonês, é a do samurai vestido com uma rica armadura, colorida e ornamentada. Ao contrário de sua congênere européia, de aspecto gótico e pesado, a "o-yoroi", um dos nomes pelo qual é denominada a armadura japonesa, não parece ser óbice aos movimentos do "bushi". A riqueza de materiais com que suas partes são produzidas e o esmero com que foram construídas lhe conferem ao mesmo tempo flexibilidade e resistência. As armaduras antigas, produzidas antes do século XVI, eram chamadas de: o-yoroi, kachu, haramaki, do-maru etc. Já as produzidas após este período, eram geralmente conhecidas como gusoku. Um grande samurai foi Miyamoto Musashi, um guerreiro que veio do campo. Os Samurais existiram por quase 8 séculos (século VIII ao XV), ocupando o mais alto status social porquanto existiu a ditadura militar nipônica denominada Shogunato. Pessoas treinadas desde pequenos para seguir o Bushido, o caminho do guerreiro. O samurai era uma pessoa muito orgulhosa, tanto que se seu nome fosse desonrado ele executaria o seppuku, era preferível morrer com honra do que viver sem honra. As may be expected, the basic clothing item in a samurai's 'everyday' wardrobe was the kimono, which for men normally consisted of an outer and inner layer. Heavier kimonos were worn in the winter, while lighter examples (those made of finer silk, for instance) were worn in the summer. In fact, there was a ceremonial day where winter kimonos were exchanged for their summer counterparts, traditionally on the 1st day of the Fourth Month (by our reckoning, in the first week of May). A samurai's kimono would normally be made of silk, a material considered superior to cotton and hemp not only for its feel and appearance but for it's relative coolness in the hot Japanese summer. (Incidentally, kimono makers traditionally reckoned on one roll of silk measuring about two feet by 20 yards for one kimono). Naturally, the quality of a kimono a given samurai might wear largely depended on his personal station and income, though, at least prior to the Edo Period, there were no hard and fast rule in this regard. Hojo Soun, for instance, touches on the matter of clothing in his 21 Articles, "Don't think your swords and clothing should be as good as those of other people. Be content as long as they don't look awful. Once you start acquiring what you don't have and become even poorer, you'll become a laughingstock."1 Exceptionally bright colors and outlandish patterns were typically avoided or sneered upon as a show of immodesty or conceit. On the same token, women of samurai families tended to wear kimono layers and colors dependant upon the station and/or power of their husband. Samurai children, however, were dressed rather flamboyantly, and a more subdued appearance was one of the results of the coming-of-age ceremony. Older samurai tended towards shades of gray or brown, in keeping with their dignified age. Beneath the kimono, a loincloth (fundoshi) was worn, of which there were two varieties. One was essentially a wrap that, for lack of a better description, resembled a diaper (familiar to anyone who has witnessed or seen footage of some of modern Japan's more esoteric festivals); the other type (more often worn under armor) was a long piece of material worn down the front of the body. A loop slung around the neck fastened the top of the loincloth while the other end was pulled up around the other side of the abdomen and tied around the front of the lower waist with cords. Samurai had the option of wearing socks, called tabi, which included a space to separate the big toe from the other toes (to facilitate the wearing of sandals). Tabi worn in an everyday capacity were normally white and were tailored to the season. Footwear generally consisted of sandals (waraji) and wooden clogs (geta). Sandals were made from various sorts of material, including straw, hemp, and cotton thread. Clogs were generally associated with the lower classes (geisha, for instance, and kabuki actors are often depicted wearing geta) though samurai wore them from time to time. The Tale of the Heike, for instance, mentions that the powerful Taira Kiyomori wore clogs, though it was considered sufficiently unusual to find its way into puns composed by his rivals. Bearskin boots were at one time popular, especially with armor, but by the 16th Century had come to be considered archaic. For rainy days, samurai, like everyone else, wore raincoats made out of straw (kappa) and availed themselves of folding umbrellas (which looked rather like Victorian era parasols, complete with decoration).

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