Japanese women put on their finest winter kimonos in the annual Coming of Age ceremony in Tokyo Credit: Photo: REX Yasutaka Komiya, an 84-year-old craftsman, sat on a woven tatami mat floor flicking ...
The kimono—a catchall term for myriad, T-shaped Japanese garments—has been around in various forms since at least the Heian period, which began in 794. The robes made their way to Europe by the 17th ...
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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. YASUTAKA Komiya, an 84-year-old craftsman, sat on a tatami mat floor flicking through piles of rainbow-hued silk. ''I started learning ...
What would have happened if Jamie Frasier and his fellow 18th century Scots of Outlander had happened upon a 21st century woman in a tartan kimono wandering the Highlands? That’s just one of the ...
The Kimono, a traditional form of Japanese clothing is an elegant creation with a long history in Japan that has seen changes in society and culture of different periods of history reflect in the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. TOKYO: Yasutaka Komiya, an 84-year-old craftsman, sits on a woven tatami mat floor flicking through piles of exquisitely decorated ...
His fingers muscled from almost a century of weaving, Yasujiro Yamaguchi worked the humming loom in his private workshop. Patiently lacing golden threads through a warp of auburn silk, he fashioned a ...
In February, inside the midtown New York City event space Skylight at Moynihan Station, Hiromi Asai's New York Fashion Week show looked much like others happening across the city: the throb of "Uptown ...