Senior officers could wear a longer, double-breasted version of the tunic in full dress.
Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa and Prince Komatsu Akihito in 1886 version senior officers' uniform White canvas leggings were worn by non-mounted personnel with both white and blue uniforms until 1906. In hot weather white trousers and cap covers were worn with the dark blue tunics. The ordinary duty and active service headdress was however a form of peaked cap with a narrow crown, somewhat resembling the French kepi of the period.Ī lightweight white cotton uniform was used for fatigue duties and tropical wear. Finance, administration and other support services had white facings.Ī dark blue shako (red for Imperial Guard units) with a short white plume was worn for full dress. The branch colour for engineers was dark brown, green for medical and light blue for transport units. Artillery had yellow facings on their dark blue uniforms. Trouser seams for both branches of the infantry had wide red stripes. Line infantry had yellow bands and piping on their caps while the infantry of the Imperial Guard were distinguished by red.
Infantry uniforms had red facings on tunic collars, shoulder straps and trouser stripes. Pockets were added to officers' tunics late in its issue. After the Franco-Prussian War the kepi was replaced with a flat topped peaked cap and the tunic collar became higher. It was worn with matching straight trousers and a kepi (red for Imperial Guard) on which was worn a brass five point star. The Meversion tunic was the dark blue, single-breasted, had a low standing collar and no pockets. Meversion Parade uniform of Japanese military attaché, Major General Onodera Makoto, 1930s The tunic of the 1867 version uniform was bright pink. Imperial Japanese Army uniforms tended to reflect the uniforms of those countries who were the principal advisors to the Imperial Japanese Army at the time.
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