Maybe kimono’s myriad motifs and patterns are aesthetic delights to designers’ eyes. Irises, cranes, bamboo — such traditional Japanese imagery, drawn from the natural world have appeared in ...

Think Japanese art and you’ll likely conjure a dizzying array of images in your head. To even the most casual observer, everything from silk calligraphy and pottery to manga drawings and ...

Opening on Saturday, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) exhibition Kimono for a Modern Age surveys this period of Japanese fashion innovation. The show presents 30 never-before-seen ...

The literal translation for the Japanese word for good luck ("gambate") is actually "endure." - Just like cherry blossoms, you won't often see the big beautiful blossoms of camellia on a kimono.

Art Review ‘The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design’ Review: Clothes as Canvas The Worcester Art Museum highlights the iconic garment and its influence on three centuries of printmaking.

Set amid the restrained serenity of the Japanese galleries, where the delicate trickle of Isamu Noguchi’s Water Stone (1986) can be heard, Kimono Style offers a more contemplative, focused ...

Cincinnati, New York and Hanford, Calif. Whether a black-and-gold lacquer box or the vibrant print of a cresting wave, a samurai’s helmet or a flowing silk kimono, Japanese works are a familiar ...

The kimono is probably the most egalitarian garb in the history of clothing. For 11 centuries in Japan, it was worn by men, women and children, rich or poor, through everyday life and special ...