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Garments with wide sleeves are known in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]] as ''ufujin'' (lit. "big/wide garment") or ''ufusudijin'' (lit. "big/wide sleeved garment").<ref>''Bingata! Only in Okinawa'', 72.</ref>
Garments with wide sleeves are known in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]] as ''ufujin'' (lit. "big/wide garment") or ''ufusudijin'' (lit. "big/wide sleeved garment").<ref>''Bingata! Only in Okinawa'', 72.</ref>
==History==
In the early modern period, up until the [[Ryukyu shobun|fall of the kingdom]] in the 1870s, three lineages dominated the formal production of ''bingata'' for the royal court: the Takushi, Gusukuma (now known as Shiroma), and Chinen families.
Takushi Jino was a young up-and-coming craftsman in the royal court when it was abolished in the 1870s; in the 1920s, at the age of 61, he was interviewed by scholar [[Kamakura Yoshitaro|Kamakura Yoshitarô]], providing one significant portion of Kamakura's defining prewar study on ''bingata''. Sadly, by the 1920s, Takushi had unbound family records on dyeing techniques and had used the pages in wall screens, an indication of just how far traditional craft had fallen from its place of importance.<ref>Buyun Chen, "The Craft of Color and the Chemistry of Dyes: Textile Technology in the Ryukyu Kingdom, 1700–1900," ''Technology and Culture'' 63:1 (January 2022), 88.</ref>
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