A wonderful book by the best-selling author of Geisha and Tale of Murasaki on the kimono and the fashioning of culture in Japan
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specialising in Japanese culture and the only Westerner to have become a geisha. She is the author of The Tale of Murasaki, Geisha and consulted on Steven Spielberg's film of Memoirs of a Geisha. She lives in California with her husband and three children.
She offers a tour of the cultural collisions that have become part
of the fabric not just of the kimono but of modern Japan. It is a
tour well worth taking
*Wall Street Journal*
An impressive, unusual and beautiful book. There are many valuable
insights here – not only about Japanese clothing but also about
patterns of gender, class and identity in Japanese culture
*Joseph J. Tobin, author of 'Re-Made in Japan'*
A lively, informative study of the kimono, tracing its evolution
throughout Japanese history to its current status as the national
dress of Japan… At once scholarly and enjoyable reading
*Journal of Japanese Studies*
She offers a tour of the cultural collisions that have become part
of the fabric not just of the kimono but of modern Japan. It is a
tour well worth taking * Wall Street Journal *
An impressive, unusual and beautiful book. There are many valuable
insights here - not only about Japanese clothing but also about
patterns of gender, class and identity in Japanese culture --
Joseph J. Tobin, author of 'Re-Made in Japan'
A lively, informative study of the kimono, tracing its evolution
throughout Japanese history to its current status as the national
dress of Japan... At once scholarly and enjoyable reading * Journal
of Japanese Studies *
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