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	Furisode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A furisode (Japanese: 振袖, furisode) is a form of kimono commonly bought by parents for their daughters when they turn 20, to celebrate Coming of Age Day.
		Furisode are distinguishable by their long sleeves, and the name literally translates as swinging (furi) sleeves (sode) - these sleeves average between 39 and 42 inches in length.
		A furisode normally costs about ¥100,000-300,000[1] for the whole outfit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Furisode (145 words)

	Kimono Collection
		Furisode is the most gorgeous formal kimono for an unmarried woman.
		The middle-length sleeved furisode is commonly worn at Seijinshiki (coming of age ceremonies), graduation ceremonies, and wedding parties.
		The style of obi used with this furisode is called fukuro obi, which is an obi that is double the width of a typical obi and is worn by folding it in half.
	www.art.uiuc.edu /galleries/japanhouse/KIMO/Kimono/Kimono_html/Furisode.html (182 words)

	Oriental Artifacts Online - oriental arts and crafts, gifts and décor - e-News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A bridal furisode is a third change worn by the Japanese bride at he wedding reception, while a ceremonial furisode is worn by unmarried women on formal occasions.
		Furisode is the formal kimono for a single woman.
		Furisode is mainly worn for major social functions such as a wedding or a tea ceremony.
	www.orientalartifactsonline.com /contacts/archive/news0303.html (1616 words)

	FURISODE - KIMONO ENCYCLOPAEDIA
		Furisode is a formal kimono for single women, it is brightly colored and made of very fine quality silk.
		One of the major points of difference with the furisode are the long sleeves.
		Furisode are mainly worn for major social functions such as wedding ceremonies or tea ceremonies until they get married.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /fashion/furisode_kimono.html (220 words)

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		Furisode is a formal kimomo for single women, it is brightly colored and made of very fine quality silk.
		The quality and color of furisode kimonos make a clear and obvious statement that the woman is single and available for marriage.
		The Furisode are mainly worn at major events such as weddings or tea ceremonies until they get married.
	webpages.csus.edu /~sac75570 (329 words)

	Furisodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The furisode was actually considered to be a flirtatious garment for young women.
		This furisode is from the later Edo period, between the last part of the 18th century and the first part of the 19th century.
		This is another furisode, this one from the second half of the 19th century.
	www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/japan/furkim.html (339 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: Furisode
		This 19th centurykosode uses paste-resist dyeing and embroidery on purple and yellow silk crepe to depict a chestnut tree with the moon behind the clouds on the left shoulder and bush clovers and chrysanthemums on the ground below the tree.
		My favorite from the Seasons exhibition is a relatively simple 19th century furisode, in which paste-resist dyeing has been employed on glossy gray silk to depict a variety of tea-picking activities.
		Historically, the furisode is associated with the disastrous Meireki Fire of March 1657, which broke out in the Honmyōji temple in the Hongo district of Edo (now Tokyo) and swept through the city for two days, killing more than 100,000 people.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/2003/08/furisode.php (1032 words)

	Raiment for Receptions: A Japanese Bride's Last Furisode
		The furisode, or "swinging sleeve" kimono, is traditionally worn only by women before marriage.
		The last time a Japanese bride wears these long, swinging sleeves is at her wedding reception.
		On this occasion, elaborately embroidered furisode, called uchikake, are worn over a matching kimono and serve to display the family's status as well as to keep the bride the visual focus of the reception party.
	dept.kent.edu /museum/exhibit/furisode/main.htm (680 words)

	chroniques d’une fraise : Furisode Special
		Basically, all those listed except furisode are for married women, starting from most formal (kurotomesode, fl silk with pattern only on bottom hem) and ending with the most informal (yukata, a cotton kimono, traditionally with navy blue).
		The furisode is for unmarried women and is highly formal: usually worn at ceremonies such as coming-of-age (20 in Japan), and at a young woman's wedding.
		This is the fukuro obi that came with the furisode.
	perso.fraise.net /furisode.php (1234 words)

	Bissonnette on Costume: 2-Geographic Search: Japan
		Furisode of white silk ground brocaded with gold threads in tortoise shell grid.
		Furisode of deep purple satin embroidered overall with large flying cranes in gold and silver threads.
		Furisode of ivory silk brocaded with flying carne motifs.
	dept.kent.edu /museum/costume/bonc/2geographicsearch/Japan/japan.html (193 words)

	Random anime things
		Due to the sensitive nature of when this kimono is worn, we do not have any pictures of one.
		While the Tomesode and Mofuku kimono are not as expensive as the Furisode, they still costs around A$8,000.
		The houmongi takes over the role the furisode played in the life when she was single.
	groups.msn.com /Randomanimethings/kimono.msnw (762 words)

	Essay #1 ( ENG101 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		I had to wake up because I had an appointment with my hair salon to dress up Furisode, which is the different kind of Kimono and fix my hair.
		I was excited to wear Furisode; however, I was afraid because I didn’t want to have as much make up on as they do.
		Furisode is for young women who are single; therefore, after I get married, I can’t wear it anymore.
	www.louisville.edu /~y0ozak02/Anniversary.html (622 words)

	Asakichi - Kimono (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Furisode Kimono makes a very special "statement" in the Japanese societey.
		At that point in her life, she is now recognized as an adult and gains the official right to vote, drink and smoke.
		The Furisode Kimono is only made from the highest quality fine silk, with bright colors.
	www.asakichi.com /kimono.htm (696 words)

	The gentle art of the geisha, revisited: An enterprising group of women in Tokyo is reviving the memory of the ...
		Modern furisode-san are not geisha, but Furisode Gakuin tries to instill some aspects of geishahood in its students.
		Women seeking a job at Furisode Gakuin do so for a wide range of reasons, from something as frivolous as wanting to wear expensive kimonos to a desire to delve into Japanese culture.
		Geisha normally carry a social stigma, but because of the corporate structure of Furisode Gakuin the women meet with little opposition from their parents when they join.
	www.walnet.org /csis/news/world_2000/gandm-001219-2.html (797 words)

	I-O DATA - News and Events - Culture & News
		Hon furisode is also a bride costume, which is often worn for a bride's robe and/or one of changing costumes in her wedding banquet.
		However it can be a formal dress if family crests are printed on homon gi as well as colored and pattern concerned.
		Furisode is an unmarried girls' gala costume worn at their adult ceremony, graduation, thank you party after the graduation ceremony, friend's wedding banquet, tea ceremony and/or other kinds of parties.
	www.iodata.com /news/culture.php?newsID=48&tot=43&ts=4&tsc=23 (548 words)

	SaruDama: In Ghostly Japan - Furisode (The Long-Sleeved Robe) - Japanese Folklore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Even in the West we imagine that objects particularly beloved by a person prior to theirdeaht might somehow wield a supernatural quality -- as if the intensity of the departed soul's affection for the object becomes a part of the object itself.
		Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted chiefly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a furisode, or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called murasaki, hanging before one of the shops.
		It was a robe such as might have been worn by a lady of rank in the time of the Tokugawa.
	www.sarudama.com /japanese_folklore/furisode.shtml (1211 words)

	silk kimono number 13 : classic Japanese kimono (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		54 and 55: "The most important kimono in a single woman's wardrobe is the furisode with its long flowing sleeves, richly decorative designs and beautifully blended colors." This furisode has a base color of sea green-blue, and has flowers of rose, pink, white and blue.
		The condition of this furisode kimono is good.
		As you can see if you click the "click here for more pictures" button, the lining of this furisode kimono is white with a pinkish edge area of about 3 inches.
	www.kimonosource.com /kimono_source_products/kimonos/kimono_0013.htm (187 words)

	JTSwanGalleries.com- Kimonos- Japanese Vintage Silk, Yasuko
		Condition = "A" Taisho era Furisode with hand painted yuzen and hand embroidered accents.
		Collar is finely hand embroidered with crane and cherry blossom motif in white silk and gold thread.
		FURISODE is chirimen crepe with artistic hand yuzen and fine embroidered accents in a motif of cranes, cherry blossoms, pine and bamboo.
	www.jtswangalleries.com /kimono.html (247 words)

	Yorke Antique Textiles Directory
		This is the innermost furisode of a three-garment kasane set.
		This is a dramatic garment: note that the designs on the long sleeves and main body are in unison, resulting in a garment that is a coherent artistic whole.
		Kakeshita is a special type of bridal furisode that is worn under a shiromuku-uchikake or iro-uchikake.
	www.trocadero.com /jalka/catalog20.html (635 words)

	Japanese kimono number 25 from Kimono Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This is another furisode kimono with absolutely wonderful areas of embroidery.
		In the base color areas of the fabric, there is a textured, wavy pattern that is visible in most of its photos.
		The lining of this furisode is an ivory white with a vermilion orange border, visible in picture 7.
	www.kimonosource.com /kimono_source_products/kimonos/kimono_0025.htm (200 words)

	TIME.com: Furisode and So-Hitta -- May 24, 1976 -- Page 1
		The word suggests rich hippies in blotchy homemade tank tops, but the Japanese craftsmen of the Edo period raised this system of knotting and immersion-dyeing to a most taxing pitch of subtlety.
		The furisode ("swinging sleeves" kimono), with its design of a lone pine tree running up the back, required hundreds of thousands of knots, each placed with fanatical precision so that the untied (and hence colored) portions of the fabric made the "drawing" of the design.
		Each knot was tied over the point of a silver nail and had to be removed with diminutive scissors.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,879740,00.html (517 words)

	Seijin shiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Government officials give speeches, and small presents are handed out to the new adults.
		Many women celebrate this day by wearing furisode (振袖, furisode
		Since most are unable to put on a kimono by themselves due to the intricacies involved in putting one on, many choose to visit a beauty salon to dress and to set their hair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seijin_Shiki (351 words)

	EARLY SHOWA (1926) CRIMSON RINZU FURISODE WITH SHIBORI KUSUDAMA
		This silk furisode is a lightweight garment that has been decorated in the ancient technique of shibori, or tie dying.
		The furisode lining is ornamented in gold leaf or surihaku.
		Furisode Dimensions: 48” Wide sleeve tip to sleeve tip x 65” Long shoulder to hem.
	www.risingsunimports.com /detail.php?itemid=2903 (186 words)

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		Some furisode cost as much as a car, and some young women would prefer to have the car.
		Always fl with a pattern or design between the obi and the hem, and shorter sleeves than a furisode.
		Houmongi can be either furisode or tomesode.Sleeve length is determined by marital status.
	www.unc.edu /~imamura/final.html (1182 words)

	nipponDAZE \| Coming of Age Day
		The furisode can cost as much as a new car, and many young women now rent them.
		They also must go to a professional dresser who will help them put the kimono on and get their hair done.
		Akamine-sensei's sister told me that when she came of age, she asked her parents to buy her an RX-7 rather than spend the money on a furisode.
	www.zanthan.com /japan/archives/000158.html (276 words)

	Japanese Kimono and Yukata :: Learn About Japanese Kimono and Yukata
		The name, Furisode, refers to the long swinging sleeves that characterize this style.
		There are three types of Furisode - differentiated by the length of the sleeves - the Oh-Furisode (big Furisode), Chu-Furisode (middle Furisode) and Ko-Furisode (small Furisode).
		The name is rooted in the concept of cutting off the long sleeves of the unmarried woman's Furisode Kimono.
	www.freewebs.com /japaneseclothing/index.htm (707 words)

	The Boone Collection - Image Gallery: Japanese Dolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		While the doll itself is not as nice as better dolls of this or other types, these can show off nicely the different styles of modern kimono wear.
		This young maika, or apprentice geisha, doll wears a green furisode, or long sleeved kimono, worn by younger women, with a white nagajuban long under-kimono underneath, and a very long, unusual hanging obi sash knot, popular among women of the entertainment classes.
		Her furisode has an allover woven pattern of plum blossoms, pine, and chrysanthemum, and her obi has a pattern of various mon, or crests.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /research_collections/anthropology/anthro_sites/boone/dolls/doll_com/doll_comisho1.html (149 words)

	Human Flower Project :: Furisode: The Japanese Sense of Beauty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It was then I noticed in my house several kimonos that my sister had worn in her youth, and I began studying the images and patterns on them.
		This kind of kimono is known as “Furisode,” the type worn by young girls, and the most colorful of kimonos with many images and patterns.
		Now that many people have moved from countryside to live in city-sides, I am afraid that in the future we may lose this sense of the Nature’s beauty.
	humanflowerproject.com /index.php/weblog/comments/furisode_the_japanese_sense_of_beauty (739 words)

	Japanese modern and vintage kimono, kanji t-shirts, yukata online shop
		Japanese flowers and leaves are embroidered in gold, silver and colored treads on patterned pale pink- and -blue background.
		This is a high quality Furisode for bride.
		This tailored wedding dress is made of silk scarlet Furisode with hand embroidery birds of Paradise and flowers motif.
	www.japonic.com /vintagesilk/index2.htm (549 words)

	Wedding Kimono - Japanese Kimono, Obi, Wedding Kimono, Fabric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The colorful Uchikake and bridal Furisode, and the white Shiromuku and Kakeshita, are the principal elements of the traditional Japanese wedding custume.
		In most weddings, the bride wears the Kakeshita with either an Uchikake or a Shiromuku over it (as a robe) for the formal ceremony and part of the reception.
		She then changes into a bridal Furisode for the rest of the reception.
	www.moto-ya.com /catalog/categories/13-1.htm (112 words)

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