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title: "Fashion in the Azuchi–Momoyama period"
lead: "The short Azuchi–Momoyama age was one of gorgeous dress: kosode blazed with tsujigahana tie-dyeing, gold leaf and embroidery, while Nanban trade with Portugal and Spain brought capes, hats and other European novelties into elite fashion."
published: 2026-07-27
updated: 2026-07-28
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## Overview

Newly powerful warlords displayed their wealth in sumptuous kosode. The signature technique was tsujigahana, combining stitch-resist dyeing with ink painting, often heightened with gold leaf (surihaku) and embroidery.

## Key garments and style

Contact with Portuguese and Spanish traders and missionaries produced a vogue for Nanban goods — mantles, brimmed hats, rosaries, buttons and tobacco — worn by daimyo and their circles. Men's formal kamishimo, the kataginu with long hakama, also took clear shape.

## Transition

The long Edo peace that followed would turn this exuberance toward both refinement and, under sumptuary law, studied restraint.