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Chiyo & Mary [comm] Thank you for the commission!
✨Commission: Open✨ 🔗 DeviantArt 🔗 VGen/umsisi 🔗 Skeb/umsisi
Huh, thought I posted this already. I did a Halloween 5k. In waraji (and hakama and kimono, obviously.) And I didn't die. (But I also mostly walked once we got to the asphalt road after the wooded trails. I'm dumb, but not that dumb.)
Actually, to be honest, aside from the fact that there's no cushioning, which sucked on the road, this was probably the most comfortable my feet have been in a 5k.
And just to be clear, I'm not dead last. There's a bunch of people behind me still. There were still people coming in when I was driving out of the parking lot to go to karate class after.
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So as best i can tell, the sandals of the shihakusho are a kind of waraji- woven straw shoes, tied in a variety of styles. Some sandals had backs, some didn’t. Also, they seem a bit longer than usual- I’ve read that the ends of the toes usually hang over the edge of waraji for gripping purposes, but that probably doesn’t look quite as cool to draw.
I also imagine that soul reaper waraji, being made from reishi presumably, last longer than a single day’s worth of heavy wear (what?!) but it is very funny to imagine a seireitei cleanup detail traveling around, reclaiming stacks of worn out straw sandals piled up wherever they got tossed out.
(first image is from the bleach settei/ second is from Home Life in Tokyo 1910, by Inouye Jukichi, pg 128)
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Naruto, Chapter 23
Sakura being outplayed by a side character 😩
Waraji [草鞋]
traditional Japanese shoe made using straw ropes