Kokura textiles are specialty cotton textiles that have been made in the Buzen Kokura region since the beginning of the Edo period, and which have been mentioned in historical documents on Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hosokawa Tadaoki. Originally, they were considered valuable items, but later on they became widely used for hakamas and belts. In the Meiji period, machine-made textiles replaced hand-made, and the textiles were used for students' hakamas and uniforms. At the beginning of the Showa era, the production of Kokura textiles declined, and they came to be called "phantom textiles."