Kimono Fashioning Culture

Name: Kimono Fashioning Culture
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ISBN: 9780300056396

ISBN-10: 0300056397

ISBN-13: 9780300056396

Edition: 1993

Authors: Liza Dalby

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This beautifully written and sumptuously illustrated book uses the history of kimono, from its beginning two thousand years ago, to explore Japanese culture. It shows how clothing fashions can illuminate our understanding of a culture, by considering why things change and what can be learned from a formal analysis of the elements of a system that is more or less fixed. The author uses kimono as a way to probe aspects of Japan that the Japanese themselves think of as close to the heart of their culture. She includes discussion of the social meaning of wearing kimono today; how kimono as we know it came to hold its pre-eminent place as the national garment of Japan; a historical overview of…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Yale University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 396
Size: 8.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Kimono Theme and Variations


The Natural History of Kimono


The Kimono Discovers Itself


Women Who Cross Their Legs - Kimono in Modern Japan


The Other Kimono


The Structure of Kimono


The Cultured Nature of Heian Colors


Moronobu's Fashion Magazine


Geisha and Kimono


Notes to the Text


Notes to the Illustrations


Bibliography


Index and Glossary