打ち掛け

打ち掛け (hiragana うちかけ, rōmaji uchikake)

1. A huge, thick, heavy, highly-formal ornate, brocaded, traditional kimono overcoat, worn only by a bride or at a stage performance; a uchikake kimono is often heavily brocaded and is supposed to be worn outside the actual kimono and obi, as a sort of coat, therefore an obi should never tied around the uchikake. It is supposed to be allowed to trail along the floor, this is also why it is heavily padded along the hem. The uchikake of the bridal costume is either white, or-else very colourful, often with red as the base colour.

• 白無垢 (しろむく) (shiromuku)
• 角隠 (つのかく)し (tsunokakushi), 綿帽子 (わたぼうし) (watabōshi)

• 打ち掛け on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja
• Uchikake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia