Welcome to the Gallery of Wear Thing, the online gallery dedicated to the history, art and craft of the kimono. Kimono is a contraction of two Japanese words kiru (to wear clothes) and mono (things). A quick word about grammer, the Japanese language makes no distinction between the singular and the plural form of words. Thus kimono could refer to one or many. There two types of kimono, the formal one worn for wedding, funerals, graduations, and visits to Shinto shrines.