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Key facts
- Clothing type.name
- Zori
- Clothing type.image_file
- Zori (16042894618).jpg
- Clothing type.image_size
- 250x250px
- Clothing type.caption
- , a type of zori
- Clothing type.type
- Japanese sandal
- Clothing type.material
- rice straw, cloth, lacquered wood, leather, rubber or synthetic materials
- Clothing type.location
- Japan
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Use
- Materials
- {{transliteration|ja|Hanao}}
- Varieties and formalities
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Zori (), also rendered as zōri (, ), are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw, cloth, lacquered wood, leather, rubber, or—most commonly and informally—synthetic materials. They are a slip-on descendant of the tied-on sandal.
Similar in form, modern flip-flops became popular in the United States, Australia and New Zealand when soldiers returning from World War II brought Japanese zori with them.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “zōri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.