À la recherche du temps perdu — Nezuko's Asanoha
I watched Demon Slayer.
It is a huge hit out there.
I had heard it moves you with its family love and brotherly love.
I will set the story aside this time.
What caught my attention was the patterns on the kimono the characters wear.
Each one is carefully chosen to suit the character's personality.
Tanjiro wears ichimatsu, the checkerboard. It is extremely famous.
Nezuko wears asanoha, the hemp leaf pattern.
So cute.
Hemp grows straight and strong.
In Japan, it has long been used for babies' first garments.
It also carries the meaning of warding off evil.
A story of a brother who keeps protecting his sister, who has become a demon.
That this pattern suits Nezuko felt like more than coincidence.
Today, such customs have all but disappeared.
Yet the wish for a child to grow up healthy is the same, then and now, anywhere in the world, isn't it?
Asanoha is also used for nagajuban, the kimono underlayer.
For a girl's nagajuban, a mother would choose asanoha and sew it stitch by stitch, putting her wishes into every one.
Such a time existed, not so long ago.
A bolt of fabric that had fallen into a deep sleep, never finding a new master.
That fabric now wakes from its long sleep, ready to be reborn as a Combinaison.
You may never wear a kimono. But you can wear the art of Wasai.
On ne porte pas forcément un kimono. Mais on peut porter l'art du Wasai.
— PASSIONEER
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