<p>Japanese costumes, and the textiles of which they are made, represent an important aspect of the traditional arts of Japan. This book examines the innovations in design and technique that produced the splendid robes and costumes during a four-hundred year period (from the 16th through the 19th centuries) considered as the golden age of Japanese costume. Each style and type of costume is presented in the light of the political and social changes that took place during this period. Separate chapters are devoted to different sectors of society - samurai, townspeople, actors and Buddhist clerics - and the clothing worn by each. The T-shape format of the costume offers a broad, flat straight-edged expanse which is virtually transformed into a canvas by Japanese textile artists. Numerous examples, lavishly reproduced in color, demonstrate this painterly approach to costume design. The superb photographs are accompanied by descriptions of the patterns and the way the costumes were made, the design elements and their origins, and the meaning and uses of motifs. Complete with glossary, bibliography and index, this volume is an invaluable work of reference for collectors, designers, and everyone who is interested int he history of textiles and fashion. With 156 illustrations, 110 in color.</p>

Japanese Costume: History and Tradition

Alan Kennedy

Children's Books

Greenwich Editions

<p>..".off his starboard bow clouds of spray were flying over the cabin of the boat in the bay, tethered to her unseen mooring. White water was smashing against her hull. A faint vibrating sound rumbled towards him across the lake. Something was wrong, he was sure of that, but he could not work out what and there was no time now to go and look..." It is July 1929. Four children arrive for a sailing holiday to find their cottage locked up, the lake flooded, and their little yacht inaccessible. The holiday seems over before it had begun. But they had not counted on the ingenuity of their friend Elizabeth... The story builds to a thrilling climax as the children eventually discover the secret of the old boat moored in the bay and discover many things about themselves at the same time. A book about a time when children roamed the earth. For the younger reader and for older people who remember a simpler and more honest world, now gone for ever.</p>

The Boat in the Bay

Lasserrade Press

The Broken Bell

Passions of an Elegant Lady: Asian Textiles of the Hammonds Collection (English and German Edition)

Clarissa von Spee

Walter Bruno Brix

Arts & Photography

Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH

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