Kimono: Fashioning Culture
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300056397
ISBN13:9780300056396
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:384 Pages
Weight:2.28 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 8.5" x 8.7"
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