Oda Kimono College

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In short

Oda Kimono College is a vocational school one minute's walk from Nakano Station in Tokyo, run by the Oda Gakuen educational foundation, and teaches the making and wearing of kimono. In its kimono course students learn wasai sewing, from unlined garments such as yukata and hitoe to lined awase kimono, kitsuke dressing up to formal wear, and dyeing from colour theory to katazome stencil dyeing and rōketsu wax-resist dyeing, with electives in dyeing, small goods, pouches and tabi. Graduates can continue in a one-year kimono research course.

Where

Tokyo, Japan

Crafts

Fashion and tailoring · Weaving and textiles

Website

kimono.oda.ac.jp

Source

School website · checked on 25/10/2026

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