num_pages: 384
description: Dalby may be best known as the American anthropologist who spent a year as a geisha in Japan, an experience she wrote about in her 1983 book Geisha . This paper reprint of a 1993 original actually grew out of a chapter in Geisha and explores the history and cultural meanings embedded in the national costume of Japan. Beautifully illustrated in b&amp;w and some color, the work is part fashion history and part social analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Kimono: Fashioning Culture
titlecomplete: Kimono: Fashioning Culture
genres: Japan, History, Japanese Literature, Historical, Reference, Asia, Fashion, Nonfiction, Art, Cultural
ratings_count: 397
publisher: Univ of Washington Pr