| #1771795 in Books | 1993-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x8.75 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 352 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Introduction to Kimono.|By Rabid Reader|This may not be the definitive book on the topic, and it may not be the most academic work on the topic, but it is certainly the most approachable book I've encountered. It's engaging, clever and detailed, without being dry or dragging. For costumers, historians, and aficionados of Kimono and Japan, this is a must-have book even|From Publishers Weekly|Another Eastern fashion innovation is spotlighted by anthropologist Liza Dalby (Geisha) in Kimono: Fashioning Culture. When Dalby spent a year as a geisha in Kyoto in the 1970s, she found that the most difficult part of her work was wearin
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 clos...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Kimono: Fashioning Culture | Liza Crihfield Dalby. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
