Further, in the O-oku (the inner halls of Edo-jo Castle where the wife of the Shogun and her female servants reside), codes on women's costume, namely kimono became regulative in minute detail, and the patterns of kimono permitted to the class she belonged became fixed little by little.
また、大奥においては事細かに婦人の着物を規定したため、次第に身分によって着用される柄が固定化していった。