和服
Meanings
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Japanese clothes; kimono
General term for traditional Japanese clothing, including kimono, yukata, and hakama. Often used in contrast with 洋服 (Western clothes).
Many people wear Japanese clothes for the coming-of-age ceremony.
My grandmother usually spends her days in Japanese clothes.
Usage patterns
- 〈人〉が和服を着るfor someone to wear Japanese clothes
She wore a kimono at the wedding.
- 和服姿で〈場所〉に行くto go somewhere dressed in Japanese clothes
My grandmother went to the tea ceremony dressed in a kimono.
- 〈人〉に和服を着せるto dress someone in Japanese clothes
The mother dressed her daughter in a kimono.