Japanese Kimono

Name: Japanese Kimono
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ISBN: 9780195875119

ISBN-10: 0195875117

ISBN-13: 9780195875119

Edition: 1996

Authors: Hugo Munsterberg

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Dramatically coloured and finely detailed, the kimono conjures up all the elegance and refinement of traditional Japan. No other culture has valued its textiles more highly than the Japanese, who integrated them into religious ceremonies and made costume design a central part of the most celebrated of its art forms, the Noh and kabuki theatres. The kimono has its origins in the many-layered garments of Heian court ladies, and the patterning of its cloth, decorated with floral and leaf forms, animals, and divinities, was seen as long ago as the eighth century. Kimono design reached its height during the brief but brilliant Momoyama period when, after a long period of civil war, all the arts…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/18/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 80
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.64" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Acknowledgements



The Early History of Japanese Textiles



Garments of the Momoyama Period



Garments of the Edo Period



Noh and Kyogen Robes



Kabuki Robes



Priestly Robes



Japanese Folk Textiles



Dress of the Meiji and Modern Periods


Chronological Table


Select Bibliography


Index