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Two Japanese women walk holding a parasol.

Two Japanese women walk holding a parasol. They wear Kimonos and 'tabi', the traditional, national form of sock. Date: 1932

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Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa wins Cannes director prize

Japanese film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa speaks after being given the best director prize for directing "Kishibe no Tabi (Journey to the Shore)" in the Un Certain Regard section of the annual Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 23, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fashionable "tabi" socks maker looking for wider interest overseas

Kazuhiro Komatsu, president of traditional Japanese "tabi" split-toed footwear maker Musashino Uniform, shows tabi socks with modern designs at his work wear shop in the eastern Japan city of Gyoda, north of Tokyo, on May 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Living room at free guesthouse in northern Japan

Photo taken on Sept. 6, 2015, shows a living room at a free guesthouse named Jiyu-tabi (free travel) in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. Tsuyoshi Mohri set up the facility, converted from a family home and capable of accommodating seven to eight people, after enjoying free overnight stays during his frequent travels across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man operates free guesthouse for tourists in Hakodate, north Japan

Tsuyoshi Mohri, owner of a free guesthouse in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, poses before the lodging facility, named Jiyu-tabi (free travel), on Sept. 6, 2015. He set up the facility, converted from a family home and capable of accommodating seven to eight people, after enjoying free overnight stays during his frequent travels across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bedroom at free guesthouse in northern Japan

Photo taken on Sept. 6, 2015, shows a bedroom at a free guesthouse named Jiyu-tabi (free travel) in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. Tsuyoshi Mohri set up the facility, converted from a family home and capable of accommodating seven to eight people, after enjoying free overnight stays during his frequent travels across Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A priest

This is a photograph from an album by Usui Shuzaburo. The caption written in pencil says, Japanese Priest. The priest is wearing a kesa robe with white tabi socks and is holding a hossu brush.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number94‐22‐0]

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Girls on jinrikishas

Two kimono-clad women are riding a jinrikisha (rickshaw). One is holding an umbrella. The rickshaw man wears a bamboo hat, inhanten coat, stomach warmer, long underwear and tabi socks. This was taken in front of a large residence.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number69‐57‐0]

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A jinrikisha

A kimono-clad woman is riding a jinrikisha (rickshaw). A short-haired man in a sacerdotal robe, long underwear and a pair of tabi socks is holding the bar. A house and bamboo fence are seen in the back. The photograph was taken outdoors.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐38‐0]

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A vegetable vendor

A peddler carries vegetables on a balancing pole. When the load was heavy, the peddlers held canes as well. This man is wearing a twisted hachimaki headband, short coat, trousers, white tabi socks and straw sandals. The vegetables include lotus root, burdock, spinach, turnip and mustard leaf. He is writing in a handbook.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐14‐0]

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Girls playing battledore

Two women enjoy a game of battledore and shuttlecock. Both are dressed in decorated kimono and white tabi socks. The young woman on the left has her hair arranged in marumage style with floral pins, while the one on the right has hers in gin'nangaeshi style. This is a studio photograph probably taken at the end of the Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐144‐0]

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Priests

This is one of a set of photographs from a Yokohama album. A business card-sized photograph, it shows a group of eleven young Buddhist priests wearing official kimono, kesa and white tabi socks. Some are holding fans, some are showing Buddhist mudra, and others have their hands hidden under their sleeves.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐55‐0]

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A woman on a jinrikisha

A kimono-clad woman is riding a jinrikisha (rickshaw). A short-haired man in a sacerdotal robe, long underwear and a pair of tabi socks is holding the bar. A house and bamboo fence are seen in the back. The photograph was taken outdoors.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number49‐24‐0]

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One of Japan's first Olympians

Photo taken in Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 8, 2019, shows a pair of tabi shoes worn by Japanese marathon runner Shiso Kanakuri when he ran in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, displayed at a museum commemorating him. A native of Nagomi, Kanakuri was reported to have set a world marathon record in the 1910s and became one of the first two Japanese Olympians. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo