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The Kimono Gallery
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Vintage & antique kimonos from Japan.
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thekimonogallery · 15 minutes ago
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A SUZURIBAKO [WRITING BOX] LATE MEIJI – TAISHO PERIOD, EARLY 20THCENTURY ATTRIBUTED TO SHIRAYAMA SHOSAI (1853-1923)
the rectangular box with overhanging cover and canted corners, decorated in iroe togidashi, with scattered peacock feathers on a black ground decorated in iroe togidashi, hiramaki-e and nashiji, the underside of the cover decorated with a crane and a pine tree in a roundel, inset into a nashiji ground, the fitted interior with a tray decorated with scattered feathers, inkstone with fundame ground and feathers in hiramaki-e, the silver waterdropper with a single feather 24 cm, 9 1/2  in.
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thekimonogallery · 15 minutes ago
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Artist: Unknown
Title: Girl and Gold Fish
Date: Ca. 1900-1910s.
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thekimonogallery · 18 hours ago
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maiko Kanoka performing at Gion Matsuri
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thekimonogallery · 23 hours ago
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Takayama Masataka
Description from Wiki:  Masataka Takayama (高山 正隆, Takayama Masataka; 15 May 1895 - 14 April 1981) was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the twentieth century.
Takayama was born in Tokyo, Japan. As an amateur photographer, he published many of his works in the magazine Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū (芸術写真研究), beginning in the 1920s. He remained an active photographer even after World War II.
He was talented at pictorialist (art) photography and took many photographs using a soft focus lens and deformation and “wipe-out” techniques.
Takayama usually used a “vest-pocket” Kodak camera (a very compact folding model taking 127 film) with a single-element lens (a tangyoku lens in Japanese). These cameras (and Japanese derivatives such as the Rokuoh-sha Pearlette and Minolta Vest) were popular in Japan at the time for snapshot use, and called ves-tan (ベス単, in Japanese pronunciation besutan) cameras; “ves” coming from “vest” and “tan” from tangyoku. Takayama’s works are thus said to belong to the “ves-tan” (besutan) school. (via: wiki) (images: dassai2.p2.weblife)
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thekimonogallery · 23 hours ago
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The Room by Marc Hanauer
Kyoto | Japan
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thekimonogallery · 1 day ago
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historical women 21/?: Murasaki Shikibu, 973 - 1014 CE
Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012… Heian women were traditionally excluded from learning Chinese, the written language of government, but Murasaki, raised in her erudite father’s household, showed a precocious aptitude for the Chinese classics and managed to acquire fluency…  Murasaki wrote The Diary of Lady Murasaki, a volume of poetry, and The Tale of Genji. Within a decade of its completion, Genji was distributed throughout the provinces; within a century it was recognized as a classic of Japanese literature and had become a subject of scholarly criticism .
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thekimonogallery · 1 day ago
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Kyoto,Spring (by mini_panda)
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thekimonogallery · 1 day ago
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Shimomura no bosetsu.  Ukiyo-e woodblock print, About 1806, Japan, by artist Kikugawa Eizan.
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thekimonogallery · 1 day ago
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Contemporary kimono and obi worn by Satomi Ishihara. Image via g2slp of Flickr
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thekimonogallery · 2 days ago
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(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Kimono)
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thekimonogallery · 2 days ago
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Buddhist priest and attendant. Hand-colored photo, about 1880’s, Kobe, Japan, by T Takagi.
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thekimonogallery · 2 days ago
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Two women, one holding a tray.  Ukiyo-e woodblock print, About 1808, Japan, by artist Kikugawa Eizan.
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thekimonogallery · 2 days ago
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A Page of Madness | Teinosuke Kinugasa | 1926
Eiko Minami
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thekimonogallery · 2 days ago
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Uchiwa picture: a type of nishiki-e that was created assuming that it would be cut out and used as a fan. NDL
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thekimonogallery · 2 days ago
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Kyoto, Japan | maco-nonch★R
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thekimonogallery · 2 days ago
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Arita Bijin Japan. Circa 1700 18 ½’’ - 47cm A rare & large porcelain model of a standing Bijin, with upturned head and enigmatic expression, her hair tied-up in traditional formal style. Wearing a voluminous and exotic kimono, decorated overall with spring flowers above a fence.
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thekimonogallery · 3 days ago
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Two women in traditional kimonos.  Photo taken about 1870’ or 1880’s, Japan. 
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