This is called 'fundoshi', it means 'loincloth', which is an underwear you put around the waist like Sumo athletes (it is for men).

This is the underpants of men in samurai times, and today it is still sold in department stores.

Good 'fundoshi' is made of real silk, or good cotton. The traditional color is white.

Today there are fundoshi in all colors, also with printed patterns, but during 'Sengoku' (Warring States) until Meiji Tenno time, only traditional white loinclothes were available. But people made them at home.

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So Oda Nobunaga wore this, aye? Hmm...! (coughing noises follow)

In my opinion, Japanese women do not bother a lot about beauty, since ancient times, we are the 'minimalists' compared to other women from other nations.

But technology offers many new tools for beauty, like these slimming masks.

I won't try them, so I won't know if they work or not!

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Click here for how un-fussy it could have been for Japanese women at the times when everybody wore 16 robes at once every single day in any weather.

This is Shinjuku area in Tokyo megalopolis.....and its very bad Japlish/Engrish!

("Pachinko & Slot. PASSAGE. Because the thing which a ball appears mast in Shinjuku. SUCH A THING IS. Our supporter in this store. As far this store. The way that a ball like the sun bursts open is the order of this store. Love a ball is, ORIENTAL PASSAGE.")

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Amen.

And if you don't know what 'pachinko' is, here it is. Old and young, people play for hours or to no end on weekends. It is waning now, but you should see what happened in the end of 1990's, when everyone was crazy about 'pachinko'!

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Click here for toys with which the Japanese never played.