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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

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

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

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 · 11h

Tsukigase Plum Grove, Japan.

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

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 13h

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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 · 17h

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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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 21h

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

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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Postcard,Japan, 1920s

MFA Boston

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Manhole cover, Japan. “Supposedly established in 4 BC, the Grand Shrine of Ise, located in Mie Japan, is one of the holiest sites of worship in the Japanese indigenous religion of a Shinto. Text and image by photographer Rekisha no tabi of Flickr

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A Japanese woodblock print titled "Ghost in front of the mosquito net" (Kayaribi no yūrei) by the artist Hirezaki Eihō (1880–1968). The print is an example of yūrei-zu, a genre of Japanese art depicting ghosts and supernatural beings.

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Three Women in the Yasukuni Temple, Tokyo, Japan, 1951
Photographer: Werner Bischof

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Tatemon festival, Japan, Photography by Yoshioka Eiichi

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In 1840 Shibata Zeshin was commissioned by an association of sugar wholesalers to paint an ema, a votive tablet, to be dedicated to the Shinto shrine Oji Inari in the city of Edo (now Tokyo), Japan. This sketch is thought to be a preparatory drawing for the tablet. Cleveland Museum of Art

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Tofukuji Buddist garden, Kyoto, Japan

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Female artist Ayana Otake. She was born in 1981 in Saitama, Japan

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This summer kimono features an bold, asymmetrical composition of stylized banana leaves executed in a faux-shibori technique, creating textured surfaces that suggest the tie-dyed resist method while likely being achieved through silk-screening. 1912-1926, Japan

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