Hat (kasa)

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Hat, Strawhat and more (kasa)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Summer, others see below
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation

笠 in Japanese is often translated as "straw hat", ... BUT
the English "straw hat" in Japanese is a "wara booshi " or even "mugiwara booshi".

Let us examine some kigo and words with our headgear.

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straw hat, sedge hat, bamboo hat, umbrella-hat, kasa　笠

Read more about the translation of this word here.


sedge hat, sugegasa　菅笠
bamboo hat, ajirogasa 網代笠
straw hat, warabooshi 藁帽子

. Legends about Sugegasa .


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Pilgrim's Hats

Pilgrimages have been very popuar during the Edo period, as a means to travel freely and get out of the town. There are various types of straw hats for the pilgrims, these words are all kigo for spring. The hat was also a protection against rain.

Read more about this kigo
WHC World Kigo Database: Pilgrimage (henro)


Shikoku Pilgrim's hat, henrogasa 遍路笠
for the pilgrimage in Shikoku henro gasa henro kasa

This example is woven from sturdy bamboo and has a diameter of 40 centimeters. The inscription reads: Dogyo ninin (doogyoo ninin　同行二人), two on the road. It signifies that Kobo Daishi is always walking with the pilgrim. Read my link given above about the details of a pilgrimage to the 88 temples of Shikoku. dogyo ninin


www.rakuten.co.jp/gintengai/415741/416913/575748/


made from sedge in a mountain form, sugegasa 菅笠　山型

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/eitikai/552877/523671/523916/　
There are six inscriptions for it:
菅傘には次の６つの言葉が書かれています。
「迷故十万空」・「迷故三界城」・「同行二人」・「何処有南北」・「本来無東西」・弘法大師を表す梵字が１字です。

made from sedge in the form of Mt. Fuji 菅笠　富士型

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/eitikai/552877/523671/523917/


made from pine bark, hinokigasa ひのき笠 hinoki gasa
This hat is rather large and protects the walking pilgrim from rain. In our modern times it comes with a plastic cover to protect the hat from the rain !

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/eitikai/552877/523671/523918/


made from finely woven bamboo, ajirogasa 網代笠 ajiro gasa ajiro-gasa
This hat is also worn by priests. This is a high-quality bamboo hat. It's diameter is 51 cm. (And it costs around 200 dollars.)
This type is also traditionally imregnatged with the sap of the persimmon tree (kakishibu) to make it rainproof. It becomes a dark orange/brown color.

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/eitikai/552877/523671/523920/

for the modern-day pilgrim, junpai booshi 巡拝帽子
White cotton cloth. Shikoku pilgrims wear all white cloths, to show their determination to finish the pilgrimage or die on the way. (White was the color of death cloths.)

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/eitikai/552877/523671/577788/

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minachigasa 皆地笠 minachi gasa
for the pilgrimage to Kumano


http://www.pref.wakayama.lg.jp/prefg/060300/kougei/kasa.html

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for the pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples, junreigasa　巡礼笠
The Pilgrimage to 33 Kannon Temples

These hats are usually without inscription. Any of the above types without inscription can also be used.
pine bark hat, hinokigasa ひのき笠 junrei gasa

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/eitikai/552877/523671/576777/


External LINK to more staw hats
lordless warriour hat, rooningasa 浪人笠
komuso priest hat, tengai　天蓋
hat for begging, takuhatsugasa 托鉢笠
traveller's hat, sandoogasa　山道笠
hat for a woman travelling, tsumaoregasa 妻織笠
warriour's camp hat, jingasa　陣笠
travelling hat for female entertainers, okesagasa おけさ笠
http://www.shop-japan.co.jp/english-boku/warring5-s.htm
http://www.shop-japan.co.jp/shop/n-kaburikasa-s.htm

More Photos of : warriour's camp hat, jingasa　陣笠

More Photos of : komuso wandering monk hat, tengai　虚無僧の天蓋

More Photos of : hat for female entertainers, okesagasa おけさ笠


Look at Japanese Pilgrims here:
WHC World Kigo Database: Pilgrimage (henro)


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Daruma Dolls with a sedgehats

7 atop each other in two columns with sedgehats. Height is 3-3/4" at the tallest point. The first row has three elongated Daruma with the natural wood finish. The 2nd has red Daruma. Each one has a different expression on his face including one crying. The top two natural and the top red dolls are nodder style.


source : kyototraditions.com




Daruma with an umbrella (kasa　傘 ).


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hat, booshi 帽子 boshi

cloth cap, officials hat, eboshi 烏帽子

http://www.shop-japan.co.jp/english-boku/image-e/eboshi.gif

Golden Official Hat, kin eboshi

www.shop-japan.co.jp/shop/n-kaburikasa-s.htm

Photos of : eboshi

. eboshi 烏帽子 と伝説 Legends about ritual caps .


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HAT .. kigo for all summer

Japanese ladies try to protect their faces from the summer sunshine, to stay as white as possible. The straw hat comes in a form rather like a cowboy hat.

summer hat, natsu booshi 夏帽子natsu boshi, mugiwara boshi
..... natsuboo 夏帽（なつぼう）
panamaboo パナマ帽（ぱなまぼう）Panama hat

kankanboo カンカン帽（かんかんぼう） Kankan hat
boater; a stiff straw hat (for men)

mugiwaraboo 麦稈帽（むぎわらぼう）straw hat

kyoogiboo 経木帽（きょうぎぼう）
hat made from a paper-thin sheet of wood



amigasa 編笠 (あみがさ) braided hat of straw [sedge/rush]
..... daigasa 台笠（だいがさ）
..... sugegasa 菅笠（すげがさ）
igasa 藺笠（いがさ）(made frow igusa straw)
takenokogasa 籜笠（たけのこがさ）(made from bamboo shoots)
Kumagaigasa 熊谷笠（くまがいがさ）(from the Kumagai area, Musashi no kuni)
manjuugasa 饅頭笠（まんじゅうがさ)
. . . CLICK here for Photos !

hinokigasa 檜笠（ひのきがさ）
ajirogasa 網代笠（あじろがさ）
see above

ichimegasa 市女笠（いちめがさ）hat for a traveling woman in the Heian period
. . . CLICK here for Photos !
onnagasa 女笠（おんながさ） hat for a woman


straw hat, wara booshi 藁帽子
wheat straw hat, mugiwara booshi 麦藁帽子
Cheap versions come from China these days and cost only about one dollar.

http://miken.jimjim.heavy.jp/?eid=146639#comments


"straw hat", warabooshi 藁帽子 , is also the name for the harvested rice heaped up in the fields to dry for a few days.

http://www.city.anjo.aichi.jp/kakuka/toshikei/anjo/siki/framesiki1.html


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hood, zukin 頭巾
topic for haiku
It was word by ninja and the firebrigade, to protect their head.
Here is one from the famous Hattori Hanzoo 服部半蔵.

http://www.craft.ne.jp/muromachi/kage01.html

. zukin 頭巾 (ずきん) hood .
kigo for winter

akazukin 赤頭巾 is the .. little red riding hood

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source :　myacyouen-hitorigoto

- - - - - Matsuo Basho wrote

On a snowy night I playfully sought a dai hood, using the two words “buying rice” as my topic

米買ひに雪の袋や投頭巾
kome kai ni yuki no fukuro ya nagezukin

off to buy rice
with a snow covered bag—
my winter hood

A playful, pun-filled poem. Basho is without rice or a winter hood and converts his empty rice sack into a hood. Nagezukin, one of several types of head-pieces used to keep out winter’s wind and cold, had a long section draping down the back.
Dai was a type of hood, and also the word for “topic” for a poem.
Yuki here means both “to go (buy rice)” and “snow.”
Tr. and comment by Barnhil

Written on the 17th day of the 12th lunar month, 1688 元禄元年12月17日, Basho age 45.
Hokku for a kukai meeting with the Fukagawa happin 深川八貧 "Eight Beggars of Fukagawa".

nagezukin 投げ頭巾 "throw cap", is a cloth cap or hood or squared-off bonnet with a long piece of cloth to "throw" down the back.
It was often worn by the sweet vendors of Edo。

yuki is a pun with the pronounciation for snow or going 行き, in the Danrin style of hokku.

. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


Fukagawa happin 深川八貧 "The Eight Poor of Fukagawa"
. 芭蕉庵 Basho-An in Fukagawa　深川 .

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ten takashi akaboo Jizoo no egao kana
天高し赤帽 地蔵の　笑顔かな



bright Autum sky -
Jizo with his red hood
smiling peacefully

More about Jizo Bosatsu, by Gabi Greve

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headband, bandana, hachimaki　鉢巻
topic for haiku


Daruma Doll with a Headband


The Shogun and other noble folk would wear a purple headband when they were ill. Even today, we can see this in Kabuki plays. Here is Ichikawa Ebizo as Sukeroku　助六.


www.nekoten.com/mt/archives/2004/06/index.php

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Worldwide use

USA
The Hat Museum at the Ladd-Reingold House, Oregon
http://www.thehatmuseum.com/

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Things found on the way


. Hats and caps with Daruma pattern . 　


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HAIKU

This is the haiku that started this whole discussion.

waga mono to omoeba karoshi kasa no yuki

Kikaku (1661-1707)

"My snow!"--when I think that,
it weighs almost nothing
on my umbrella-hat!

Henderson, "An Introduction to Haiku"
Click HERE to read more about SNOW on my HAT"



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雨笠も日笠もあなた任せ哉
ama-gasa mo higasa mo anata makase kana

umbrella-hats
sun hats...
trust in Buddha!




旅笠を小さく見せる霞かな
tabi-gasa o chiisaku miseru kasumi kana



their traveling hats
looking small...
mist
Tr. Lanoue

Kobayashi Issa
Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo



わか草に笠投やりて入る湯哉
wakakusa ni kasa nageyarite iru yu kana



© Haiga by Nakamura Sakuo
http://sakuo3903.blogspot.com/

my umbrella-hat
left on the baby grass...
a hot bath
Tr. Lanoue




traveling hats
small in
the mist
Tr. Chris Drake

This hokku is from the New Year's anthology of the Katsushika school of haikai in Edo published at the beginning of 1796, so it must have been written in 1795, when Issa, 33, was traveling around in western Honshu and Shikoku. The wide, woven-rush hats belong to travelers (or a traveler) off in the mist, either coming toward Issa or disappearing into the mist.

The large hats are the most prominent parts of the travelers, who must be on the verge of slipping into or out of sight. Their hats, still partly visible, link the barely seen travelers to both the visible and invisible worlds. Japanese depictions of ghosts show them with no feet, and the feet of the travelers in this hokku must be invisible or nearly invisible, though they are not exactly ghosts. They are close enough to be individuals, but far enough away to be beyond the I-you relationship. Are they linked to Issa in his memory, or are they about to burst into his world?

Chris Drake

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Kinkaishuu (金塊集) waka 348 by the third Minamoto shogun Sanetomo (1192-1219):

hail hits
hard on the gauntlet
of the warrior
arranging his arrows
in a wild field in Nasu

In the waka a high-ranking warrior, perhaps implied to be Sanetomo's father, the first Kamakura shogun Yoritomo, is hunting in some wild fields covered by low bamboo. Resting for a moment, the warrior sits on his horse with his bow in his right hand. With his left hand he reaches back and makes sure the arrows in his quiver are arranged correctly so they can be pulled out easily. On his left arm is a long gauntlet, a thick sleeve with mail and pieces of metal on the outside that covers the lower 2/3 of his arm as well as the back of his left hand, leaving only the tips of his fingers and his palm uncovered. This strong gauntlet protects his left arm from being hit by the bowstring, and in battle it would protect his left arm from an enemy. On the day of the hunt the hail bouncing off the gauntlet creates an image of strength and vitality, as if the warrior were ignoring the hail and gathering his energy as he prepares to ride off.


toonori ya arare tabashiru kasa no ue

Read about this haiku by Issa and a discussion and

. Comment by Chris Drake .

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flower gathering
her straw hat accepts
the butterfly

- Shared by Sandi Pray -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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Related words

***** Haiku Translation Discussion:
Kasa no Yuki


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.SAIJIKI ... HUMANITY
Kigo for Summer

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. WKD : umbrella (kasa)


MORE
hokku about the traveller's hat by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .


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