Another fave from The Met's
#KimonoStyle show for #FrockFriday + bonus #FroggyFriday:
Fireman's Jacket (Hikeshi-banten) with Shogun Taro Yoshikado, #Japan, Edo, mid-19th c.
“The jacket] features a scene popular in Kabuki & based on a print by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) in which the warrior Yoshikado asks a frog sage for magical powers to avenge the murder of his father.” That print is “The Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Shōgun Tarō Yoshikado”, 1862, also shown here:

For #FrockFriday: Man's Under Kimono (Nagajuban) with #Spider and Spiderweb, #Japan, 1920s-30s. 🕷️🕸️
It was definitely one of the highlights of the #KimonoStyle exhibition at The Met!
"The pattern could be a reference to [#Yōkai] Tsuchigumo, a monstrous, shape-shifting spider featured in Japanese myths and legends as well as in #Noh & #Kabuki plays. The dramatic, supernatural subject was also featured in #ukiyo-e prints, which might have inspired this nagajuban's composition."

#LunarNewYear #YearOfTheRabbit
Kyōgen Suit (Suō) with #Rabbits Jumping over Waves, #Japan, #Edo period, mid-19th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art NY #KimonoStyle exhibition.

"White rabbits hop over waves on this suit, the playful motif referring to the story 'The Hare of Inaba,' from the Records of Ancient Matters (Kojiki, c. 710). This text was later referenced in the Noh play Chikubushima (Chikubushima Island)."

#LunarNewYear #YearOfTheRabbit Meisen Summer #Kimono with #Rabbits & Scouring Rushes, #Japan, #Showa period, 1939? (may have been a young girl's ceremonial garment for the 1939 Year of the Rabbit New Year's celebration later tailored into a summer kimono) -
Metropolitan Museum of Art #KimonoStyle exhibition.