dōgi

The present author assumes that these dōgi were worn by the bugaku performers off stage as gowns during intervals.

1986 January 31, Eiko Kamiya, “Repairs and Restorations of Three Dogi Shirts Handed Down by the Rinnoji, Nokko (Part I)”, in Bijutsu Kenkyū, number 334, Tokyo: Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1–9

From behind uke, slide your right hand up across the front of his neck and hold onto the left inside collar of his dōgi; […]

1996, Gōzō Shioda with Yasuhisa Shioda, translated by David Rubens, “Shōmen-tsuki kubi-shime: Front punch; neck lock”, in Total Aikido: The Master Course, Tokyo; New York, N.Y.: Kodansha International, →ISBN, section 4 (Goshin waza (Self-defense techniques)), page 192

The most disparate kinds of objects lay heaped on top of each other topsy-turvy: […] trousers and shirts and socks and shoes all mixed together with innumerable dōgi and service kimonos for everyday use with belts, tabi, and geta, newspapers, plates, chopsticks and letters, envelopes and advertisement-covered plastic bags lying everywhere, […]

2022, László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet, chapter XXXVI, in A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN