help with japanese clothing -- type of obi?

[gone_4_good]

This came in a large collection of vintage Japanese clothing.

It was the only one and I haven't been able to identify it.

If it is a type of Obi I have not been able to find anything like it but it does look like it could be used in that way

There is a silk white strap and a small loop on the back.

Thank you in advance

[sonomabarn67]

Looks like for a Sumo wrestler.

[maxine*j]

Not a mawashi, if that's what you were thinking.  A mawashi is a single piece of cloth about ten yards long and weighing several pounds.  

[sonomabarn67]

That's the problem, I wasn't thinking at all. I was guessing and I think I pulled that off nicely!

[janetpjohn_la]

I googled types of obi, and, wow--many different for men, children, and women.  It's like a Nagoya obi, sort of.

Janet

[maxine*j]

But a nagoya obi isn't T-shaped, like this piece, is it?   I don't know of any obi shaped like OP's item.  (Not that I know that much, or what OP's piece is, mind you.)

[janetpjohn_la]

No, I couldn't find one of any kind T-shaped.

Janet

[zanathar]

Posibly a ornate Fundoshi (loin cloth) maybe a Rokushaku Fundoshi for festivals? Would explain the T Shape and the loops to help secure the knot or binding

[maxine*j]

I can see why you says that, for the same reason Sonoma thought it might be a mawashi, but I'm 99.9% sure it is not a fundoshi.   We may see that see as a loincloth shape, but it's just now how the Japanese make loincloths.