Featured Chinese or Japanese? Different dress and hairstyles.

Some clues for finding out if an item is Chinese and Japanese by looking at the costumes and hairstyles.

First Chinese art, which usually depicts people in Hanfu dress, the traditional clothing of the Han People (mainstream Chinese).
The women wear a wrap-around shirt/robe over a skirt or dress. You often see flowing ribbons to emphasize ethereal beauty.

Hanfu women.
These photos are just to show the style, because these costumes are made with modern materials:




Hanfu hairstyles are very diverse:




* Hanfu women usually wear much more jewellery than Japanese women.

Men's Hanfu costumes are in the same style as the women's, but instead of a skirt they wear wide trousers:


A princess with a coat for nobility. Underneath she would wear a Hanfu dress. The crown is also classic Chinese.


A high ranking official:


Occasionally you will come across the impressive Mongolian style on Chinese paintings and ceramics:

 

Second, Japanese.
Japanese dress doesn't have the ethereal, free-flowing feel of Chinese dress. Costumes are more formalized and textiles are thicker, which makes the costume look more rigid but still elegant.

The most visible item of clothing is the kimono, a robe with a sash.
In the West we tend to call every type of Japanese robe a kimono. The Japanese have different names for different lengths, short sleeve, long sleeve, etc. I won't go into that, this thread is about recognizing the difference between Chinese and Japanese clothing and hairstyles.

The type of kimono we see most in Japanese art. There are several layers of clothing underneath:


Court dress, always countless, weighty layers and the last few kimonos have a trail:


Women at court often wore most of their hair loose, an ancient style. And as long as it would grow.



18th century Japanese nobleman:


A Samurai (knight) in armour:


Women's hairstyles, the hair is often pulled out at the sides:




Geishas.
Note: A geisha is a girl or woman who entertains men, it is a profession. Not all Japanese women are geishas.
Geishas are recognized by the low neckline at the back, almost as if someone pulled the back of their kimono down, and by the exuberant hair decorations.


* Japanese women's jewellery is generally restricted to hair ornaments.

Men's hairstyle:


Historic, Edo period:

 

THANK YOU @Any Jewelry !!! This makes it much simpler for me!
Thank you so very much!!

 

Maybe @daveydempsey or @Bookahtoo can pin it below the 'Reference books' thread?

 

Translating it to porcelain, I'm sure you will recognize it now.


Short shirt/robe over long skirt, flowing ribbons. Yes, Chinese!



Kimonos, more formal looking, no 'ethereal' flowing ribbons, 'big hair' at the side of the face, so Japanese.

 

Such loveliness in the morning! And informative as heck ! Many thanks !

 

You should be on JEOPARDY with all of that knowledge in your head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thankyou. Very interesting

 

Thank you @Any Jewelry!
This is so overdue.
I collected Asian dolls as a kid, and always loved Asian art of all kinds.
I still have about 30 Japanese dolls.
It always made me mad (and still does) when people couldn't tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese and Korean!

 

Thank you, AJ! Helpful and beautiful!