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So I've been wanting to find a men's kimono similar to the style worn by the samurai in the UY comics, but I'm having difficulty finding an online retailer who has anything like that outfit. Specifically, none of them ever seem to come with those funky pants the rabbit wears - it's always just the robe. Anyone know anything about this?

Matt

Hey
Try any place that sells martial arts equipment and more specifically KENDO Clothing. They may have what you are looking for.....

www.awma.com
www.masupply.com

fortunec00kie

those Kendo pants seem to be just the ticket. Now, as for the top, am I correct in assuming that it's just a standard kimono top, but tucked into those pants somehow? Anyone got an answer to that one?

Matt
(fashion plate)

Yep

Aren't you looking for an entire "Usago Outfit"?
the enitre Kendo Uniform both Top and Pants are the whole outfit.....
the Kendo Top is gonna be closer to the actual Usagi Top then a kimono because it is going to have all the proper ties for the sleeves etc.
hope this helps.

fortunec00kie

noamlly any martial arts magazine will carry the pants that he has.. its just the finding the correct one to make it look right. Try going to some dojo's in the area to see if they know what kind of style you are looking for.. or you can go to a seamstress and have her make a few sets for you at a low price

Jupie

The funky pants are called Hakama's. They are terrible to get used to as they trip you up lots!

And they look tricky to tie up, but they do look great when you move!

If you're industrious, it's not a HUGE problem to make kosode and hakama (top & pants). There's good patterns in .pdf form to be had at www.sengokudaimyo.com, if you're willing to dig a bit. If I remember correctly, the hakama pattern is in the section on armour; as for the kosode,... dharrr. It's somewhere in there. Possibly somewhere in the clothing section. Not in the bit about architecture, but that's pretty obvious. Unfortunately, there's a lot of it still under construction, but the site's full of super-cool pre-shogunate scholarship.

http://kyudo.com/kyudo-e3.html has about the best instructions I've managed to find on how to tie the hakama once you've got a pair; properly arranged over the obi knot, you'll even seem to have leetle powder-puff tail like rabbit

wulf wrote:The funky pants are called Hakama's. They are terrible to get used to as they trip you up lots!

Spoken like a fellow Aikidoka...!

Sjt_Cedric wrote:http://kyudo.com/kyudo-e3.html has about the best instructions I've managed to find on how to tie the hakama once you've got a pair; properly arranged over the obi knot, you'll even seem to have leetle powder-puff tail like rabbit

Interesting - that's quite different from how my sensei taught me to tie mine...?

I'm sure it's a matter of preference, but it makes me wonder how many different ways there are to tie a hakama...?

In the SCA group I belong to, there's a chap who (a) likes Japanese costume, (b) likes fencing. So, we have the spectacle of someone wearing court-length Hakama scuffling around like a musketeer. It is fun to watch, but the efficiency and authenticity questions boggle.

I just bought a keiko-gi, a hakama and a shinai . I started practising kendo here on my university about 5 months ago and I just love it... I'm trying to get some of my friends into it and I even got one guy from kendo to read "The Brink of Life and Death". He loved it! . Perhaps he'll become an Usagi-otaku like myself...

Speaking of Usagi gear...does anyone have any idea where to get a bamboo 'filler' like you see in the comic, Usagi carries tea in it. I can't find one anywhere, perhaps someone knows what it's called in Japanese?