半臂

Japanese

Kanji in this term
半	臂
はん Grade: 2	ひ > ぴ Hyōgai
on'yomi

Noun

半(はん)臂(ぴ) • (hanpi) 

1. (clothing) sleeveless robe worn in men's formal court dress under the 袍 (hō) and over the 下襲 (shitagasane), or under the 襖 (ao) in earlier iterations of court dress. Made of silk in the winter and silk-gauze in the summer
2. (poetry) Short for 半臂の句 (hanpi no ku, “(poetry) an adorned third line in a tanka”).

See also

• 束帯(そくたい) (sokutai)
• 布袴(ほうこ) (hōko)