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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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Yasukuni Shrine　Girls Club magazine・ Showa 8 (1934), Japan

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

Japanese Votive Plaque (ema)

20th century Japan

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 6h

Tokyo, Japan. This family is attending the coming-of-age Shinto ceremony called “shichi-go-san” - children of 3, 5, and 7 years old usually held around Nov 15. The girl and boy are wearing special kimono purchased just for this ceremony. Photography by totomai martinez

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 14h

by artist Haruka Makita b. 1988, Osaka, Japan. Education: 2007. Enrolled at Kyoto Seika University, Department of Visual Design, Illustration Course

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 15h

A kawari kabuto (exotic helmet), Momoyama period, late 16th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 16h

Bandō Tamasaburō V (born April 25, 1950, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese Kabuki actor who made a name for himself as an onnagata, a man who plays female roles.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 17h

This kurotomesode has a composition demonstrating a bold asymmetrical arrangement where snow-laden pine trees in brilliant turquoise create dramatic sculptural forms against the deep black silk ground. 1912-1926, Japan

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Explaining with her hands. Japan. Photography by troutfactory of Flickr

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At the market in Wajima, Japan. Photography by Danake Carlsson of Flickr

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

Detail of the Imperial Palace, Kyoto, Japan. Ohotography by Luong Duc on 500px

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23h

Winding silk from cocoons. 1914-18, Japan.

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I am not sure, but the complexity involved suggests that 10 years or more to become proficient

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Furuichiba Summer Festival, Japan

Photographed on August 17, 2019, by happy-pix-jpn

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Tsukigase , Japan.

Photographed on March 15, 2019 by happy-pix-jpn

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

Tsukigase Plum Grove, Japan.

Photographed on March 15, 2019 by happy-pix-jpn

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Exotic helmets (kawari kabuto) allowed Japanese samurai leaders to choose symbolic motifs for their helmets that reflected some aspect of their personality or that of their collective battalions. In Japan, the dragonfly is symbolic of focused endeavor and vigilance. 17th c. MIA

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

Gathering seaweed. 1914-18, Japan.

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Silk oiran uchikake (in this case, not a wedding kimono) dating to the late 19th century, Japan. Surviving oiran kimono are very rare. Japan Kimono Culture Museum

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

Japanese book cover, 1922

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“On October 27, 1917, twenty-thousand suffragists marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City demanding the right to vote. In the center is Komako Kimura (1887-1980), a prominent Japanese suffragist and actor.

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Wall detail taken of Ninomaru Palace at Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan. Photography by Kieran Gorman on 500px. It is this centuries-old Japanese austere and stripped down aesthetic that so influenced Europe and America design from the late 19th century and onwards.

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This kurotomesode, a prestigious category of women's kimono. The restrained placement of decoration reflects the Japanese principle of ma (negative space), where vast areas of unadorned silk create a sense of elegant minimalism that would later influence international modernist design. 1900-1920

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“This is one scene of the Odori performance ’‘Tsuyama no tsuki” by Ponto-cho’s Maiko and Geiko. Located : The Gion Matsuri Festival in Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto. July 24, 2011.“ Text and Photography by Teruhide Tomori of Flickr

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Children in Tohoku, Japan. Photography by MT of Flickr

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