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Hakema color.
Do the colors a hakema can have have any special meaning?
In the time of Morihei Uesiba a hakema was only a pair of trousers, and came in a wide range of colors and paterns, both embroidery and print.
Nowadays you only see different hues of blue and black.
Some of the statements I have found so far:
Generaly accepted in Kendo: black, blue, brown, white.
Generaly accepted in Aikido: black, blue, white, undied (broken white).
Red seems te be tied to Aikibudo.
White seems to be a rather intresting color, depending on who you ask, the color white seems to have the following meaning:
It has a religious meaning.
Women are supposed to wear white.
You may wear white after you are deseased.
Some say that a white hakema alone has no meaning, but when completely dressed in white it is worn by the deseased.
And others say that it has nothing to do with the color of the clothing but the way the clothing is worn, right over left instead of left over right.
My sensei only accepts either black or blue on his tatami.
I am rather curious if there are any guidelines, or is this something we westerners thought up?
J
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