Big Sleeves! Small Sleeves! Kimono Sleeves!

#Kimono #sleeves come in a variety of styles!
Here's some examples from Japanese art.

But first a reminder kimono have several parts.

Here is a shape shifting fox disguised as a priest who's so overwhelmed by the beauty of the moon he's started to shift back to his true form

We tend to think of women as wearers of kimono thought kimono just means clothing for both sexes.

Note how she is wearing one kimono as a cloak over her other layers of robes / kimono.

Note also the long sleeves.

Heian era courtiers wore kimono with BIG loose sleeves.

This print shows a Heian male courtier in a robe based on /chinese costume but with big japanese style sleeves while the woman wears the short sleeve kimono of a later era.

I'll end with something closer to the modern era  a print showing 3 women plum blossom viewing.