Modernizing the Kimono

Title

Modernizing the Kimono

Subject

Dress

Description

Yōshū (Toyohara) Chikanobu, sewing of Western clothes for high ranking ladies (Empress Shōkun promoting Western modes of dress), 1887, trytych of polychrome woodblock prints, ink and color on paper

Creator

Yōshū (Toyohara) Chikanobu

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein. Image copyright The Metrop

Publisher

Kimono A Modern History by Terry Satsuki Milhaupt

Rights

Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art