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Kimono with flowering Plum Tree motif Kimono with flowering Plum Tree motif
With today's modern kimono, it is the woman who enjoys the most colorful and elaborate styles and patterns. A young unmarried woman wears the furisode, which is the most colorful of kimono. Furisode have long flowing sleeves that sometimes reach to the ankles! Older women, or those who have married, wear a kimono with short sleeves.

FLOWERING PLUM TREE
Early 18th Century

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