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, also referred to as , or (all onomatopoeic terms taken from the sound make when walking), are traditional Japanese wooden sandals worn by young girls for , young women during
File:Clogs, pair (AM 6337-2).jpg, Side view of another pair. Red-gold-green brocade , wood lacquered in red with gold and green decoration
File:Clogs, pair (AM 6337-1).jpg, The same pair as adjacent, showing (four-warp woven bamboo-skin topsole; see
, also referred to as , or (all onomatopoeic terms taken from the sound make when walking), are traditional Japanese wooden sandals worn by young girls for , young women during Coming of Age Day
is a public holiday in Japan held annually on the second Monday of January under the Happy Monday System. It is held in order to congratulate and encourage all those who have already reached the age of maturity between April 2 of the previou ...
and apprentice geisha in some regions of Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
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are typically made from a solid block of paulownia
''Paulownia'' ( ) is a genus of seven to 17 species of hardwood trees (depending on taxonomic authority) in the family Paulowniaceae, the order Lamiales. The genus and family are native to east Asia and are widespread across China. The genus, o ...
wood, a lightweight hardwood
Hardwood is wood from Flowering plant, angiosperm trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal ecosystem, boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostl ...
native to East Asia and often cultivated there. range from tall, and can be decorated, lacquered black or left plain; the plain varieties are not waxed. are kept on the foot with a thong strap known as the ; this is tied to the shoe by the use of knots passed through drilled holes – one at the front of the shoe, through the underside of the slope, and two through the central block of the shoe. The centre of the shoe is drilled out, leaving it hollow, and the ends of the are tied in this hollow. The front knot may hold a small bell in place, and the hole is typically covered with a small metal cover known as the (, literally , "front" + , "metal"). In smaller , the bell is secured by the back two knots.
The worn by apprentice geisha are generally taller than most, being tall, and have either no finish or, in the summer months, a plain black lacquered finish. The worn by young girls and women are generally shorter, and often feature multicoloured, lacquered designs on the sides of the shoe. worn for celebrations may instead feature brocade
Brocade () is a class of richly decorative shuttle (weaving), shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in coloured silks and sometimes with gold and silver threads. The name, related to the same root as the word "broccoli", comes from Italian langua ...
fabric decorating the outside of the shoe, with a woven bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial plant, perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily (biology), subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in th ...
base (known as ) on top.
straps can be made of any material for young women and girls, though they are typically made of brocade fabric, velvet or otherwise decorated silk or polyester silk. For apprentice geisha, are always worn plain, with the colour worn indicating the stage of an apprentice's training: red straps are worn by new apprentices, whereas yellow straps are worn by senior apprentices at the end of their apprenticeship.
zōri
Zori (), also rendered as zōri (, ), are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw, cloth, lacquered wood, leather, rubber, or—most commonly and informally—synthetic materials. They are a slip-on descendant of the tied-on sandal.
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File:Clogs, pair (AM 6337-5).jpg, The same pair from below, showing more clearly than side view
File:Clogs, pair (AM 1975.96-2).jpg, A third pair from below. Black lacquer sides, red plush , no
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* Jandal
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* List of items traditionally worn in Japan
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* List of shoe styles
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