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YAMANOBE, Tomoyuki. Opulence: The Kimonos and Robes of Itchiku Kubota.
Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 1984. 4062010291 4062010291 / 9784062010290
Folio. Beautiful photographs of Japanese kimonos, robes, and fabric which has been tie-dyed with patterns outlined with ink, gold and embroidery. The text (in both Japanese and English) describes the history of this tecnique and garments. Pp.147, illustrated throughout with wonderful colour photograhs some of which fold out, text in both English and Japanese. Stiff card dustwrapper has minor edge wear and a smal tear to inside rear flap. VG.**Born in 1917, Kubota was 20 when he first encountered tsujigahana, a style of elaborate kimono decoration popular in the late 16th century. After World War II, after enduring three years as a prisoner of war in Siberia, Kubota returned to Japan and became a painter of silk kimono. Simultaneously, he was researching ways to recreate tsujigahana techniques. In 1961, he opened his own studio."(Cantonrep)."With his first solo exhibition in 1977, when he was 60, Kubota finally felt he had met his own exacting standards. He had developed a complex method of combining multiple dyeings of tiny hand-tied puffs, ink painting and embroidery on strips of silk crepe that would be pieced together into an 8-foot-tall mural in the shape of a kimono. He textured the silks with silver and gold wefts and stitchings no bigger than a fingernail. A single kimono could take as long as a year to finish".(ClevelandCom).
Price:
48.00 GBP
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