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Kimono: The Art and Evolution of Japanese Fashion, edited by Anna Jackson, first published in English in 2015 with French and Italian translations. [2] It describes, with photographs, 220 items from the collection, including essays explaining how the evolution of the kimono reflected political, social and cultural changes in Japan. [4]
A traditional Japanese oil-paper umbrella or parasol, these umbrellas as typically crafted from one length of bamboo split finely into spokes. See also Gifu umbrellas. Kimono Traditional square-cut wrap-around garment. Kimono slip (着物スリップ, kimono surippu) A one-piece undergarment combining the hadajuban and the susoyoke. [2]: 76 [4]
Photograph of a man and woman wearing traditional clothing, taken in Osaka, Japan. There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as Japanese clothing (和服, wafuku), including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and Western clothing (洋服, yōfuku) which encompasses all else not recognised as either national dress or the dress of another country.
Little surprise, then, that boardroom buzzwords sometimes veer into racism, sexism or -- in the case of a current favorite "open kimono" -- a combination of the two.
The typical men's kimono is a subdued, dark colour; black, dark blues, greens and browns are common. Fabrics are usually matte, in contrast to the occasional satin weaves of some women's kimono. Some men's kimono have a subtle pattern, and textured fabrics are more common in informal men's kimono.
Liza Crihfield Dalby (born 1950) is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture.For her graduate studies, Dalby studied and performed fieldwork in Japan of the geisha community of Ponto-chō, which she wrote about in her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The institution of the geisha in modern Japanese society.
In English, these kimono are commonly referred to as 'propaganda kimono'. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Traditional items of clothing that were not kimono, such as nagajuban (underkimono), haori (jackets worn over kimono) and haura (the decorative inner linings of men's haori ) also featured wartime omoshirogara , as did miyamari , the kimono worn by infants ...
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