Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of のうし – see the following entries.
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| 【直衣】
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- [noun] round-collared, skirted over-robe worn as daily wear by Japanese nobles from the Heian era. Unlike the 袍 (hō) the colour was not rank-prescribed. By custom white figured silk, lined with 二藍 (“overdye-purple”) in the winter, and overdye-purple silk-gauze in the summer. Worn with 指貫 (sashinuki) and 烏帽子 (eboshi).
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| (This term, のうし (nōshi), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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