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node: fashion_jomon
type: fashion
slug: jomon_period_fashion
title: "Fashion in the Jomon period"
lead: "Jomon dress is known mainly from ornaments and clay figurines rather than surviving cloth: hunter-gatherers wore garments of plaited and twined plant fiber and animal hide, and adorned the body with beads, earrings and bracelets."
published: 2026-07-27
updated: 2026-07-28
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## Overview

No true loom weaving has been confirmed for the period. Clothing was made from bast fibers and hides worked by twining, netting and plaiting, and little cloth survives in Japan's acidic soils, so the picture is reconstructed from tools and adornment.

## Key garments and style

Body ornament was rich: clay ear ornaments, stone and shell beads, and bracelets cut from shell. The dogu clay figurines carry incised patterns often read as tattooing or decorated garments, suggesting dress and body-marking already carried meaning.

## Transition

The arrival of wet-rice farming, woven textiles and metal tools from the continent opened the Yayoi period, when the loom and hemp cloth reshaped what people wore.