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The Kimono Gallery

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Partner at Yorke Antique Textiles (est. 2004) | Specialist in antique Japanese kimono and ceremonial textiles | Passionate about Japanese art, ethnology, and the stories textiles carry through time. https://www.yorkeantiquetextiles.com/

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1h

Ceremonial youth kimono, late 19th c, Japan. It features the Seven Treasures - legendary auspicious objects that include the wish-fulfilling jewel, sacred scrolls, rhinoceros horn cups, clove weights, and other talismanic items believed to bestow protection and prosperity upon the wearer.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 3h

Kaga-Yuzen Kimono, created by the Japanese textile artist
Miyano Yuzo

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 5h

1928, cover, by Japanese artist Takeo Takei

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1936-46, Japan

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 9h

Main bridge in Gero, (Japan) has handprints from the local families in it

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 12h

Girl in kimono. Japan. Photography by Jumy-M

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 12h

Sada Yacco performed the role of Ophelia in a Japanese adaptation of Hamlet, and the dialogue would have been in Japanese. Her husband and theatrical partner, Otojiro Kawakami, was known for adapting Western plays into the Japanese language for local audiences

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1940-45, Japan

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 22h

Sada Yacco as Ophelia. Japan, 1904

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

Etchuyatsuo Owara Kazenobon Festival in Toyama, Japan

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

This kimono features an all-over pattern of stylized oak leaves, ferns and accompanying foliage. The yuzen-painting technique is masterfully employed to achieve subtle gradations and naturalistic detailing within each leaf form. 1940-1960, Japan

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Japanese postcard from early years of 1900s

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Maiko Tanewaka of Miyagawa-cho. Photography by John Paul Foster

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A geisha, playing a traditional Japanese stringed instrument called a koto. Hand-colored photo. About early 20th century, Japan.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

Yasuzo Nojima, Woman, 1933

Gelatin Silver Print

Courtesy The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Nojima Yasuzō (Hiromasa, 1889–1964) is one of the most important figures in the history of modern Japanese photography.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

The body of this tsuba (sword guard) is made with two different metals affixed together and carved to resemble wood grain. The left half is iron and the right half is brass. The reverse is a copper and tin alloy decorated along the bottom with a crab and lotus plants. Late 19th century, Japan.

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Details withIn Asakusa Shrine, Japan. Photography by Wyrel on 500px

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

19th century silk furisode. Japan Kimono Culture Museum

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

Japanese archer wielding a huge bow. 1914-18, Japan. Image via A. Davey of Flickr

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1d

As a ‘misaki’ at a festival, Japan. Photographer Igaken of Flickr

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 2d

Meisen kimono
Japanese first half of 20th century. Short-sleeved kimono with all over geometic design of green, red, gold and gray trianges and stripes with bouquets of flowers.

Purchased from Annie Van Assche, Seattle; Gift to the MFA, March 24, 2004

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The aesthetic philosophy of this kimono anticipates elements that would later emerge in early 20th-century modernist movements, particularly the emphasis on pure form, color relationships, and geometric abstraction that would characterize Art Deco and even prefigure aspects of minimalism. 1880-1920

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 2d

Youth Representing Monju, God of Wisdom on a Lion, Suzuki Harunobu, c. 1767, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese Art

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 2d

Represents ‘dancing daughters’ wearing outfit utlized in the Komachi Dance of the mid-Edo Period (1700-1800), Japan. Scans from book “The History of Women’s Costume in Japan.” Scanned by Lumikettu of Flickr. Japanese costume many centuries ago…recreation accomplished in Kyoto during the 1930’s

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Kenji Mori obidome, Japan

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