Senior officers could wear a longer, double-breasted version of the tunic in full dress. In hot weather white trousers and cap covers were worn with the dark blue tunics.Įmperor Hirohito in double breasted 1886 full dress uniform 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 version was used for fatigue duties and tropical wear. Uniform color should be dark-blue not grey-green as pictured.Ī dark blue shako (red for Imperial Guard units) 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. General Katsura Tarō in 1886 Blue uniform 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. Resembling the Imperial German Army M1842/M1856 dunkelblau uniform, the dark blue single-breasted tunic had a low standing collar and no pockets. Soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Satsuma Rebellion (Garrison of Kumamoto, 1877). The initial uniform colour was dark blue, following the contemporary French style and resembling that of the Union Army of the American Civil War.
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