Why it's wrong that I want this outfit

[gurdymonkey]

Screenshot of Mieko Harada as Kaede, from Kurosawa's Ran. http://www.kurosawamovies.com/gallery/main.php

Well, for one thing, Kaede is the Goneril character in Kurosawa's adaptation of the King Lear story to feudal Japan. I'm not all sweetness and light, but she's way meaner than I am. 

For another, see the triangles all over her kosode? That's a serpent scale motif, traditionally used in Noh costumes worn by the Hannya, a woman who is turned into a demon by her own jealousy.
https://eee.uci.edu/clients/sbklein/images/NOH/nohmasks/pages/surihaku.htm shows two examples of snake scale Noh robes.

Lastly, she dies in it.

It's still freaking gorgeous though.

Comments

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

It is freaking gorgeous.
Her sleeves are interesting; the openings seem bigger than most kosode, but they're still partway sewn closed. Maybe a theatrical costume necessity? It looks to me like she's got her outer layer off her shoulders and hanging down around her waist, am I seeing that right?
The color combination with the cream/bronze/black/red is great; I may have to steal it for a braid.

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Yes, she's got a brocade uchikake of some sort worn koshimaki fashion.

I need to rent this and watch it again.