tag:mikado-kimono.com,2009-11-01://50 It is literally a meaning "Clothes" of "Harmony", that is, clothes of Japan. This word arose as a word that showed clothes of Japan for clothes of the West, that is, "Dress" at the Meiji era. The word "Japanese clothes" is often used in the scene that wants to avoid vagueness especially so that word "Kimono" may originally mean clothes general as described later. Movable Type 4.261