Two-shaku sleeve kimonos, commonly worn at graduation ceremonies,
are kimonos tailored with sleeves measuring two shaku—approximately 76 cm
(using the whale-bone ruler commonly used in the kimono industry, where one shaku = 37.8 cm).
Originally, graduates attended ceremonies in hakama attire,
wearing a furisode kimono with hakama.
However, the kimono style was simplified to the two-shaku sleeve kimono (small furisode kimono)
and is now used for graduation ceremonies.
Kyoto Kimono kohbou
Kyoto Chamber of Commerce and Industry Textile Wholesale Commerce Committee
No.1-0025756
"Kyoto Kimono kohbou" has been registered as a brand of Tahara Ichi Co., Ltd. from the Patent Office No. 5030029 Trademark application 2006 -082086).