Shoe
Geta are made from a flat piece of wood on two slats (called ha, or teeth) that raise the sole part 4-5cm off the ground. This is enough to keep a kimono from getting dirty, though ashida (rain shoes) have slats about 10cm high.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 130/2000/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Collection Area Region
- E
- Material
- woodropeclothbamboo
- Common Name
- shoe
- Simple Name
- footwear
- Production Country
- Japan
