#tachi

[tanuki-kimono]

Most formal outfits for upper ranks samurai - Sokutai and Ikan formal court dress

(as worn by upper-ranked samurai of the Edo period - great charts by Nadeshico Rin). You can find more about samurai ranks and their regulated attires under the tag "samurai kimono".

The Sokutai

束帯 Sokutai is the most formal attire worn by Edo period samurai of the 4th rank and above.

It first appeared during Heian era as a ceremonial court dress worn by 公卿 kuge (nobility/Imperial court) and 殿上人tenjôbito (courtiers/court official​s). Usage was kept well into Edo period by both the Imperial court and the Tokugawa shogunate.

The intricated garb includes:

冠 Kanmuri - hat, with distinctive 垂纓 suiei "tail" hanging in the back. Materials could include silk, lacquer or horsehair and were strickly regulated

袍 Hô - a round-necked robe with large boxy sleeves. Colors and patterns were strickly regulated.

Shown here is a pattern used by the Shôgun, the 葵に丁子唐草 Aoi ni chôji karakusa (cloves with arabesques, and hollyhock leaves - which is the Tokugawa crest)

笏 Shaku - flat ritual sceptre

平緒 Hirao - a wide flat braid wrapped around the body with ties left hanging up front. Colors and weaves were strickly regulated

(飾)太刀 (Kazari)-Tachi - (mock) long sword for ceremonial use

表袴 Ue-no-bakama (or omote-bakama) - white overpants, shorter hakama pants worn over the aka-ôkuchi

赤大口(袴) Aka-ôkuchi(bakama) - red underpants, a tad longer than the overpants

下襲(の裾) Shitagasane(no-kyo) - visible train part of an inner robe worn under the 袍 hô. During Edo period, train lenght got up to 1丈 (around 3 meters/10 feet).

襪 Shitôzu - a type of ancient socks (construction is different than tabi - they don't have a sole for ex.)

石帯 Sekitai - leather belt used in ceremonial court dress, covered in black lacquer, and decorated with stones and jewels

The Ikan

衣冠 Ikan - while still very formal and worn by Edo period samurai of the 4th rank and above, ikan looked much more simpler than sokutai.

First used for nightime duties (夜間宿直) in Heian era, it gradually came to be worm during daytime too. From Muromachi period and onwards, it had become the work uniform of the Imperial court.

Like sokutai, it uses the hô+kanmuri, and wearers were allowed to carry kazari-tachi. Yet, note how the pants differ from sokutai ones: those are large bouffant pants called 指貫 sashinuki (or 奴袴 nubakama).

You can also note that wearer here is not holding a shaku scepter: it's a folded 檜扇 hiôgi (formal folding fan made of cypress also of Heian history. Those were unpatterned as painted ones were for women).

[straysketches]

"Timedancer" fam doodles -- my version of Tachi, the design I think she'll have closer to canon, and a few 'Tana doodles I added color to

[creepa-b0t-inc]

@grimmpheonix let me have their Dog Shrine boss, so bam, here you go

I renamed em Tachi, because that's the name of the font I found AND tachi is a word that can be used to refer to karate moves

(also featuring cameos from @mercair's Shikari and @booripley's Blanca-Chan)

[longlivedead]

the sakura trick mangaka has graced us with sulemio doujin (again)

[k-d-t-art]

I decided Damon needed friends

Archie B, a sensitive drama king

Quinn, the sassy voice of reason (you probably remember them)

and Tachi, a loyal (and ever so slightly unhinged) robot

Still finalizing their designs but ye

[kalira]

Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween! A cosy Tachi (from beside me right this moment in fact) for you~

The porch light's on for Trick-or-Treats!

[basil-the-scorned]

Words of Encouragement?

[joyce-stick]

So, Majime Girl to Seishun Lingerie is very really good.

It's about cute girls who really like looking at each other's undergarments and it's very cute and earnest and the girls are very wholesome sweet perverts who appreciate lingerie and are very good yuri friends

Just wanted to tell everyone.

They just really like it

[thedashingduke]

One of my NPCs from an L5R campaign I'm running, she's a Dragon clan Agasha, trained in the Kitsuke investigator school. I tried to give her as much Jotaro Joestar energy as I could.

[manekinekocake]

[gypsybiswa7]

Mempo Samurai

[aikoisms]

@kiigan

Aiko prepared for her normal routine of finding a cozy spot in the forests surrounding Konaha to read some fine literature after her normal duties. She finds a rather large tree with ample lighting while still bathing the limbs in shade.

She grins victoriously as she hops up and hoists herself into the tree. She took a seat and retrieved a book from her small bag, a cliche romance novel, of course. Her favorite. She sighs quietly in contentment as she gets comfortable to read in silence.

However she can’t help but feel like she’s not alone—watched. Her eyes flick around briefly, not spotting anything out of the ordinary. She reassures herself it’s probably an animal and resumes her reading.

[straysketches]

Tachi doodle, closer to what I think she'll look like in-canon/older

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[zaruba-needslove]

[theartofyori]

Hi! This is an interpretation of an armor described in an order to an armorer, made by a retainer of the Takeda Clan, Anayama Nobutada, during the Sengoku period.  This armor dates 1571, and is a dō maru constructed in the Mogami dō style.

Ver.1: It has a Zunari Kabuto, a kote with kikko in the shoulders, and, hence the order of the armor don't mention any, has no sode. The haidate are also absent in the order, but I decided to make them here.

Ver.2: It has a Koboshi Kabuto, and a pair of bishamon kote, with integrated sode. Again, the haidate are speculative.

This armor is representative of the middle to late stage of plate armor development in Japanese military history, which, contrary to popular belief, has absolutely nothing to do with contact with the Europeans.  This illustration was made with the help of Gunsen History (twitter.com/gunsen_history), on Twitter. And here is a translation of the armor order made by him: twitter.com/gunsen_history/sta…

[k-d-t-art]

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