Abstract
Long ago the clothing worn by the Ainu race were kera, kap-ur, rap-ur and chep-ur-those of plant, animal skin, bird skin, and fish skin-and since they could get cotton and silk by barter toward the later Edo Era, they came to wear attushi, letarupe, chikar-karpe, ruunpe, kaparamipp, chigiri and mour.
I studied how they put them on, consulting the field surveys based on the evidence by the old there. In this first report I wrote of the quantity and the way of their clothing.
Their fine garment was usually made by a wife with her greatest effort and affection for her husband as a choice present to him, and he did not own so many as the Japanese today. But they had many ways of wearing; for the ceremony, for daily use, and for laboring. What is more, in another district they wore in another way-for instance, some of them used a girdle on the garment as in the case of kimono and others put the garment over their shoulders like haori. As well as the clothing for the adult, there were those for babies and children and for the dead with their own ways and rules.
