Haori

A woman's haori from between 1920 and 1940, crossed with red, green, yellow and brown lines and white dots, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The haori is the jacket worn over a kimono. Its front panels never fully close, so it is held with a cord across the chest and leaves the robe beneath on show. Women rarely wore one in the Edo period, when the geisha of Fukagawa were among the few who did, and it only became general women's wear after the Meiji era, leaving the early 20th century free to treat it as a canvas as lively as this one.