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Japanese Costume and the Makers of Its Elegant Tradition

Japanese Costume and the Makers of Its Elegant Tradition
Author: Helen Benton Minnich
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1963
Genre: Design
ISBN:

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Achievement in textile arts and kimono decoration traced from origins in legendary times through emergence into the modern era.


Japanese Costume & Makers

Japanese Costume & Makers
Author: Helen Minnich
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1462908942

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With dozens of photographs and expertly written text, this Japanese clothing book is the authoritative guide on the kimono. Japanese Costume invites the reader to explore the world of Japan’s textile arts and costume decoration—from its origins in legendary times, through its brilliant development in the intervening centuries, to its emergence into the modern era. The book which is the first in English to present the full sweep of Japanese achievement in the costume arts, is essential the story of the kimono and its evolution. The text is accompanied by a generous selection of fine illustrations and photographs: 54 in full color, 119 in black and white, and 12 line drawings. They include not only pictures from contemporary sources—such as the picture scrolls and woodblock prints— but also photographs of kimono masterpieces and representative textiles.


Japanese Costume

Japanese Costume
Author: Alan Kennedy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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Area Bibliography of Japan

Area Bibliography of Japan
Author: Ria Koopmans-de Bruijn
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810833746

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Provides a general overview of literature relating to Japan and covers a broad range of subject matter, from art, feminism, and linguistics, to corporate culture, history, and medicine. Includes books published since 1980 that are related to the geographical area of Japan and to Japanese culture within that area.


Ethnic Dress in the United States

Ethnic Dress in the United States
Author: Annette Lynch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0759121508

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The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural history of the United States and its peoples, from Native Americans, white Anglo colonists, and forcibly relocated black slaves to the influx of immigrants from around the world. Entries consider how dress items may serve as symbolic linkages to home country and family or worn as visible forms of opposition to dominant cultural norms. Taken together, they offer insight into the ethnic-based core ideologies, myths, and cultural codes that have played a role in the formation and continued story of the United States.


Modern Fashion Traditions

Modern Fashion Traditions
Author: M. Angela Jansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1474229506

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Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies and analyses their similarities and differences as legitimate fashion systems, contesting Eurocentric notions of tradition and modernity, continuity versus change, and 'the West versus the Rest'. Preconceptions about non-Western fashion are challenged through diverse case studies from international scholars, including street-style identity in Bhutan, the influence of Ottoman cultural heritage on contemporary Turkish fashion design, and an investigation into the origins of the word 'fashion' in Chinese. Negotiating tradition, foreign influences and the contemporary global dominance of Western fashion cities, Modern Fashion Traditions will give readers a clearer understanding of non-Western fashion identities in the present. Accessibly written, this ground-breaking text makes an essential contribution to the study of non-Western fashion and will be an important resource for students of fashion history and theory, anthropology, and cultural studies.


The Japanese Kimono

The Japanese Kimono
Author: Hugo Munsterberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1996-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780195875119

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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 leafforms, 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 benefited from the grandeur of the military rulers. Their patronage and the interest of the emerging merchant class combined to support no fewer than 10,000 weavers in the country's most important garment-producing area, Kyoto's Nishijin district. Richly illustrated throughout, this book explores the history of the kimono, from its antecedents to the bold designs and technical innovations of the Momoyama and Edo periods and its influence on contemporary designers such as Kenzo and Issey. Chapters on Noh and kabuki robes, religious garments, and folk designs fill out this portrait of Japan's most celebrated form of dress.


Japanese Fashion

Japanese Fashion
Author: Toby Slade
Publisher: Berg
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2009-11-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0857851454

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Japanese Fashion examines the entire sweep of Japanese clothing history, from the sophisticated fashion systems of late-Edo period kimonos to the present day, providing possible theories of how Japan made this fashion journey and linking current theories of fashion to the Japanese example. The book is unique in that it provides the first full history of the last 200 years of Japanese clothing. It is also the first book to include Asian fashion as part of global fashion as well as fashion theory. It adds a hitherto absent continuity to the understanding of historical and current fashion in Japan, and is pioneering in offering possible theories to account for that entire history. By providing an analysis of how that entire history changes our understanding of the way fashion works, this book will be an essential text for all students of fashion and design.