straw skirt; grass skirt
A traditional skirt made of straw or grass, worn around the waist by hunters and fishermen in historical Japan.
Hunters in the old days wore straw skirts when they went into the mountains.
This picture depicts a fisherman wearing a straw skirt.
Mixed katakana-kanji spelling, sometimes used for emphasis or in certain contexts.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling, sometimes used for readability.
Variant kanji form using 簑, an older character for 蓑.
Compound of 腰 (こし, 'waist') and 蓑 (みの, 'straw raincoat'), referring to a waist-worn straw garment.