The kimono garment, the national dress of Japan, carries within itself all of the magic and traditions of Japanese culture.

For ages, the kimono ... period also saw the experimentation with traditional Japanese color combinations, influenced by ...

Imagine standing on the old wooden Nihonbashi bridge in the commercial heartland of Edo, the ancient Japanese city now known as Tokyo. It is some time around 1750 during the Edo period ...

By focusing on a single story, the exhibit allows the viewer to compare the different formats and techniques developed by Japanese artists during the Edo period ... washes a kimono in a stream.

Google “kimono ... University in Japanese art history. “But it has changed historically. That’s why it was such a fundamentally important garment during the Edo period, because it ...

Founded in 1790, during the Edo period (1603-1868 ... It even served as the wedding banquet location for a scene in "Otoko wa Tsurai Yo" – a popular Japanese film series commonly known as “Tora-san” ...

Presented together, the artworks, over 120 in number, reveal the roles of cats in Japanese society as well ... a cat in a kimono leans on an octopus it just hit with a wooden spoon.

Literally named "thing to wear", the kimono appeared more than a thousand years ago in Japan. By the beginning of the Edo period (1603-1868), it was worn throughout the country. The merchant ...

From geisha gown to 21st-Century fashion statement, the kimono is a quintessentially Japanese garment entrenched ... sartorial significance during the Edo period (1630 – 1868).

By the Edo period (1603-1868), everyone wore a unisex garment known as a kosode, made from straight pieces of fabric sewn together like today’s kimono. In the early 1600s, Japan was unified by ...