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

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm not jealous of anyone, particularly?

[horsefriend2.livejournal.com]

Oh!

The demon part only applies to jealousy? Is there another demon signifying pattern?

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a/s

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'd have to go through some of my references on Noh to be sure. The snake scale is the most well known.