Tea ceremony costumes

Usage examples of kimonos.

Some had steel breastplates but most wore simple kimonos, as the robes were called, and the two swords.

They all wore silk kimonos and, over them, ornate surcoats with wide belts nipping them in at the waist and huge, starched shoulders.

The folds of her three gossamer kimonos sighed open and revealed the misted underskirt that enhanced her loins.

Then she slid from under the quilt, gathering her kimonos around herself.

Rapidly they untied their sashes, took off their kimonos, and copied him.

All wore the same somber gray uniform-belted kimonos, each with five small circular insignias, one on each arm, on each breast, and one in the center of the back.

Their kimonos, too, had five insignias, but these were scarlet, the same that had fluttered at the mast head, Toranaga's cipher.

At the head of the gangway he called out loudly and imperiously to his fifty samurai, who now wore Brown uniform kimonos as he did, "All of you, stay here!

Tonight they were all barefoot, their kimonos the very best silk, their skins very white.

Like most samurai, their clothes were a motley collection of kimonos and rags, but their weapons always the best that each could afford.

Further, he is to receive ten horses, twenty kimonos, together with full battle equipment for his vassals - the rank of Chief Admiral and Pilot of the Kwanto.

Poor child, four of her kimonos were ruined when water doused the fires.

Damned silly kimonos - you look like a woman, Pilot - or one of those half-men!

All the girls wore scarlet kimonos with scarlet ribbons in their hair.

All wore dark kimonos and conical hats and held their swords tightly: Naga, Yabu, Blackthorne, Uraga-noh-Tadamasa, and six samurai.