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What Is Nagoya Obi?
Nagoya Obi is much easier to tighten the abdomen than Fukuro Obi.
Nagoya Obi is simply made and the way to tight is different.
Literally, it was born in Nagoya City!
Features Of Nagoya Obi
The width is 34cm and the length is 360cm.
There are two kinds of Nagoya Obi which is called “Kyusun Obi” and “Hassun Obi”.
Kyusun and Hassun mean the width of Obi.
Wearing scene and combination with Kimono changes by the width and techniques of dyeing.
Sometimes it’s difficult to choose but it means we have so many combinations!
The History Of Nagoya Obi
Nagoya Obi was in fashion after the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923.
It was the most destructive on record.
Nagoya Obi doesn’t need much cloth than Maru Obi or other Obi and it was economical to make.
Obi use to be so heavy and hard to tight so Nagoya Obi changed the way to wear.
Weave and Dyeing
Weave
There are lots of advanced techniques which is complicated.
We can see Karaori on the Nou costume. Shouha is so thin and has small patterns on the cloth.
Definition of method for patterning has the three pattern.
Patterns dyed from the edge to edge (“Taresaki” to”Tesaki”) is called “Zentsu”
“Rokutsu” dyed in Otaiko and Haramae. Pattern is dyed in 60% of Obi.
“Otaiko” dyed only in the part of Otaiko.
The noble pattern fits to “Homongi”, “Tsukesage”, “Edokomon”,”Kata Yuzen” and “Tsumugi”.
There are Fukuro Nagoya Obi which is for casual wear.
Dyeing
Dyeing pattern also has many techniques called hand-drawn, Sibori, Tsujigahana and Bin-Gata.
Recently, we enjoy mixing each of dyeing and weaving Obi with Kimono.