Kimono Design

Kimono Design
Author: Keiko Nitanai
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Design
ISBN: 146291926X

Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes, and the many motifs that have been woven, dyed, painted or embroidered into these textiles reveal a reflectiveness, a sense of humor, and an appreciation of exquisite beauty that is uniquely Japanese. Organized according to motifs traditionally associated with each season of the year, Kimono Design interprets the kimono's special language as expressed in depictions of: Flowers and grasses Birds and other animals Symbols of power, luck and prestige Land-and-seascapes scenes from literature, history and daily life scenes of travel and the Japanese concept of other lands and many others… Extensive notes on all the motifs demonstrate how the kimono reflects changing times and a sense of the timeless. Information on jewelry, hairpins and other accessories is scattered throughout to give a fuller sense of the Japanese art of dress. This is a volume that Japanophiles, historians, artists and designers will all cherish.

Japanese Kimono Designs

Japanese Kimono Designs
Author: Shôjirô Nomura
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0486137422

This unique design treasury, consisting of lavish full-color pictures of a vibrant array of kimonos, is reproduced directly from two rare and costly original portfolios.

Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book

Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book
Author: Ming-Ju Sun
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486462234

Japanese kimonos are wearable art. Celebrating the patterns and motifs adorning the traditional costumes, 30 ready-to-color illustrations present kimono-clad figures awash in pastoral scenes and wandering abstracts.

Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes

Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes
Author: Jenni Dobson
Publisher: Batsford Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1849945381

A practical and inspirational book for dressmakers, quilters and embroiderers who have long coveted the style of Japanese clothes, in particular the kimono. Expert dressmaker and quilter Jenni Dobson takes you through the techniques for making Japanese clothes with simple step-by-step processes, but goes further, covering details on Japanese design and the various techniques for embellishing Japanese clothes. Colourfully illustrated with images of finished garments as well as practical diagrams and patterns for dressmaking, the author has deliberately made all the garments accessible even for those with limited experience of dressmaking, but there are plenty of ideas to inspire those more accomplished readers.

Kimono

Kimono
Author: Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-05-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1780233175

What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changing across time and with the perspective of the wearer or viewer. Kimono: A Modern History begins by exposing the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century foundations of the modern kimono fashion industry. It explores the crossover between ‘art’ and ‘fashion’ in this period at the hands of famous Japanese painters who worked with clothing pattern books and painted directly onto garments. With Japan’s exposure to Western fashion in the nineteenth century, and Westerners’ exposure to Japanese modes of dress and design, the kimono took on new associations and came to symbolize an exotic culture and an alluring female form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the kimono industry was sustained through government support. The line between fashion and art became blurred as kimonos produced by famous designers were collected for their beauty and displayed in museums, rather than being worn as clothing. Today, the kimono has once again taken on new dimensions, as the Internet and social media proliferate images of the kimono as a versatile garment to be integrated into a range of individual styles. Kimono: A Modern History, the inspiration for a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,not only tells the story of a distinctive garment’s ever-changing functions and image, but provides a novel perspective on Japan’s modernization and encounter with the West.

Creative Haven Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book

Creative Haven Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book
Author: Ming-Ju Sun
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2013-07-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 048649344X

More than 30 illustrations to color depict women in traditional garb enhanced by intricate prints of cherry blossoms, bamboo, birds, and other figures. Perforated pages are printed on one side only. Previously published as Japanese Kimono Designs Coloring Book.

The Kimono in Print

The Kimono in Print
Author: Vivian Li
Publisher: Brill Hotei
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789004424647

The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design will be the first ever publication devoted to examining the kimono as a major source of inspiration, and later vehicle for experimentation, in Japanese print design and culture from the Edo period (1603-1868) to the Meiji period (1868-1912). Print artists, through the wide circulation of prints, have documented the ever-evolving trends in fashion, have popularized certain styles of dress, and have even been known to have designed kimonos. Some famous print designers also were directly involved in the kimono business as designers of kimono pattern books, such as Nishikawa Sukenobu (1671-1751) and Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764). The dialogue between fashion and print is illustrated here by approximately 70 Japanese prints and illustrated books--by Nishikawa Sukenobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Utagawa Kunisada, Kikukawa Eizan, and Kamisaka Sekka, among others. The group of five essays features new research and scholarship by an international group of leading scholars working today at the intersection of the Japanese print and kimono worlds and the social, cultural, and global significances circulated therein.

Japanese Kimono Paper Dolls

Japanese Kimono Paper Dolls
Author: Ming-Ju Sun
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780486250946

Embodying an intricate blend of pattern and color, texture and composition, the Japanese kimono is a stunning garment with origins dating back to the Nara period (645?794). Its history is rich in tradition, culture, and art. Drawing her inspiration from the 18th- and 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints by such masters as Utamaro and Hiroshige, designer and fashion historian Ming-ju Sun has created this exotic collection of 26 exquisite costumes with two charming Japanese dolls to model them. The kimonos display a broad range of lovely fabrics ? from simple, practical cottons to luxurious silks and satins ? and a variety of traditional decorative elements ? geometrics, florals, stripes, checks, plaids, animals, landscapes, Japanese characters, and circular crests. All are sensitively illustrated with clean line and lush color in the style of Japanese woodcuts. This entertaining and educational paper doll collection will be a favorite with children and collectors. As a full-color survey of the Japanese kimono as an art form, the volume will be valued by costume designers, students of the history of fashion, and the many people fascinated by Japanese art and culture.

Zuanchō in Kyoto

Zuanchō in Kyoto
Author: Kenichirō Yokoya
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese woodblock-printed books of design ideas for kimonos. Generously illustrated in full color with images demonstrating the changes in surface design for kimono in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ca. 1890-1940).

Fashioning Kimono

Fashioning Kimono
Author: Annie M. Van Assche
Publisher: 5Continents
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Victorian and Albert Museum, London, 13 October 2005 - 1 May 2006.