Notes for Chapter Four 1 There is a legend that the Sun-Goddess invented the first hakama by tying together the skirts of her robe.
The hakama was a species of divided skirt, used by men and women alike.
As to the form of the garments worn, the principal were the hakama and the koromo.
Following for some distance along the bank of a large canal I reach the village of Hakama for the night.
Happily Akira is able to borrow a pair of hakama from the landlord; and, after having arranged ourselves as neatly as we can, we take our way to the temple, guided by the messenger.
But below the hem of the white robe I see the gleam of hakama of crimson silk.
Akira must don fresh white tabi and put on hakama before going into the august presence: no one may enter thereinto without hakama.
Machi, a stiff piece of pasteboard or other material sewn into the waist of the hakama at the back, so as to keep the folds of the garment perpendicular and neat-looking.
The hakama is a kind of trousers made of silk, and is worn by men instead of an under-kimono.
Kayabashi, a man under thirty, and fresh from Tokiyo, and all the staff and students were in the national dress, with the hakama of rich silk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hakama" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
