kyahan
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thumb|Antique Japanese are cloth leggings which were worn by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. In Japanese, the word is also used for Western soldiers' gaiters.
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It sits within the topics Japanese clothing, Japanese words and phrases and Ninjutsu artefacts.
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thumb|Antique Japanese are cloth leggings which were worn by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. In Japanese, the word is also used for Western soldiers' gaiters.
==Description== were worn as padding underneath the samurai greaves (). Some types of could be covered with mail armour ( or ); these were worn by foot soldiers () or by samurai as protection. were worn by ordinary travelers as protection from cold, insects and underbrush.
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