Kasa (hat)

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This display case at Gifu Castle shows many of the type known as .

A is any one of several traditional Japanese hats. These include and .

Grammar and etymology

is the correct way to pronounce the word when it stands alone. causes to change to when it is preceded by another word specifying the type of hat, as in .

shares its etymology with the Japanese word for "umbrella" (also pronounced , but written as ).

Types of

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Antique Japanese samurai leather (war hat) in the style.

A number of different styles of exist. Varieties of were used throughout most all levels of Japanese society.

Some types of include:

• : a wickerwork made of shaven bamboo or wood.
• : a wickerwork . An is a straw hat of the type traditionally worn in some Japanese folk dances.
• : a deep wickerwork .
• : a type of commonly worn by samurai and foot soldiers. The samurai class in feudal Japan, as well as their retainers and footsoldiers, used several types of made from iron, copper, wood, paper, bamboo, or leather. almost always had crests on them.
• : typically a conical with a flat top, often worn by .
• : a bamboo for traveling with a wide, flat shape that offered protection from the sun and rain. Favored by , couriers who regularly traveled between Edo and Kyoto.
• : a conical, pointed wickerwork made of sedge. This hat shape is called a nón lá in Vietnam or do'un in Cambodia.
• : a Buddhist mendicant's . A woven rice-straw worn by mendicant Buddhist monks, the is made overlarge and in a bowl or mushroom shape. Unlike an Asian conical hat, it does not come to a point, nor does it ride high on the head like a samurai's traveling hat, instead covering the upper half to two-thirds of the face, masking the identity of the monk and allowing him to travel undistracted on his journey.
• : (see )
• : a folded , worn for the Awa Dance Festival.
• : the family crest of Yagyū clan, not an actual kind of .

Gallery

• A Buddhist monk wearing a Script error: No such module "lang"..
  A Buddhist monk wearing a .
• The hat in this print is a Script error: No such module "lang". of the sort known as Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., worn by Script error: No such module "lang"., mendicant monks of Fuke Zen.
  The hat in this print is a of the sort known as , worn by , mendicant monks of Fuke Zen.
• These women at the Awa Dance Festival wear the characteristic Script error: No such module "lang". of the dance.
  These women at the Awa Dance Festival wear the characteristic of the dance.
• Various Script error: No such module "lang". from the Return of the Samurai exhibition of Samurai art and artifacts, held in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada in 2010.
  Various from the Return of the Samurai exhibition of Samurai art and artifacts, held in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada in 2010.
• A Buddhist pilgrim asking for alms outside a Buddhist temple.
  A Buddhist pilgrim asking for alms outside a Buddhist temple.

See also

• ("Yataro's Travel Hat"), a 1957 film by Kazuo Mori
• List of hat styles
• Asian conical hat

External links

• Haiku Topics (01) ..... (WKD - TOPICS): Hat (kasa) at Haiku Topics Template:In lang