Author: SEKKA, KAMISAKA (Artist):
Title: Nihon Jos›. (Japanese women clothing). Seven volumes. Kyoto, Uns›do, Meiji 39 (1906).
Description: . Complete work. Size: 25 x 17.8 cm. Each volume with about twenty leaves. Japanese text. Numerous b/w woodcut illustrations of kimono-dressed women. Fukuro-toji binding. Bound in original blue decorated wrappers, paper title labels on front covers. Covers lightly rubbed. Volume three has partly small wormhole to margin. Red Asian stamps. First edition.This work is devoted to women's clothing, specifically to the movement of women's garments. Kamiska Sekka, the famous textile designer and master of the Neo-Rinpa style. He anticipates the same idea as the Bauhaus researchers, to study the pattern in its temporal dynamics and the textile movements of the folds. TheÊstudy of the linear rhythm explains why the illustration is monochrome.

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japnese, japon, clothing, design, women, clothes, garments, kimono,asia, asie, asien, asiatic,


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