Washington D.C. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Oxford Press, 1990. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution magazine publication by Oxford Press. Includes the article "A Common Thread: Japanese Ikat Textiles" by Amanda Mayer Stinchecum with 19 color plates and "Japanese Ceramics and Cuisine" by Louise Allison Cort. More
Krefeld: Deutschen Textilmuseums Krefeld, 2004. 12 color plates. Exhibition pamphlet of Japanese costumes and other textiles from the Deutschen Textilmuseums Krefeld. German text. More
Tokyo: Imperial Household Museum, 1927-1929. 190 textile fragments on 114 color halftone plates (6 of them double), 5 supplementary collotypes. Textiles chiefly from the Shosoin Collection, some from the Imperial Household Museum and some originally from the Horyuji Collection. Introductions and notes by Kiyoshi Inouye (Japanese), and by Jiro Harada..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959. Feature articles on Japanese costume, "An Aristocracy of Robes" by Alan Priest and "Four Hundred Winters ... Four Hundred Springs ... " by Jean E. Mailey with 1 color plate and 17 black and white illustrations. More
Nishimiya: Okayama Art Museum, 1981. 37 color plates 61 black and white. Exhibition catalog of Noh costumes from the Momoyama period (1568-1600) to the Edo period (1603-1867) on display at the Nishimiya City Ohtani Memorial Art Museum from November 22-December 20, 1981. Japanese text. More
Osaka: Asahi Shimbun, 1982. 87 color plates. Traveling exhibition of the works of Minagawa Gekka (1892-1987) in honor of his 90th birthday. Minagawa is perhaps Japan's best known 20th century textile artist and dyer known for his large woven banners for public buildings and sacred architecture and also his high-end..... More
Kyoto: Happodo Art Publisher, October 1977. 17 color plates 162 black and white. "Design Life" magazine featuring traditional and contemporary Japanese fabric design. More
Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1990. 46 color plates 10 black and white. Museum exhibition catalog honoring the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Okinawans to Hawaii. Most textiles were on loan from the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and the Okinawa Craft Promotion Center. More
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Co. , Ltd., 1993. 89 color plates. Great color and detail images of modern Japanese textiles from from Japanese museum collections. Kyoto Shoin's Art Library of Japanese Textiles #17. Japanese-English text. More
New York: The Japan Society of New York, 1941. 8 color plates 15 black and white. Beautiful color reproduction of robes and textiles. More
Kyoto: Nippan, 1987. 189 color plates. The Sasakura collection of traditional freehand paste-resist indigo dyeing technique of auspicious motifs on textiles. More
Hiratsuka: Hiratsuka-shi Bijutsukan, 2001. 81 color plates 162 black and white. Hiratsuka City Museum exhibition catalog of Kosode robes, including those mounted on screens. With drawings reproduced from old pattern books of Kosode designs. Essays discuss Kosode as depicted in early paintings. Japanese text with English plate captions. More
Tokyo: Diamond, 1992. 95 color plates. First volume of a set of Japanese textiles showing examples and some production techniques. Includes section on pongee, ikat, ramie, braids, and dyeing. English text with English and Japanese plate captions. More
Fukuoka: Fukuoka Art Museum, 2011. Exhibition catalog of 70 works of tsutsugaki (tube-drawing) textiles from the Edo period to before World War II which covers a range from ceremonial to every-day use. Fully illustrated in color. English/Japanese text. More
Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2015. Meisen silk was produced in Japan from the late nineteenth century and became particularly popular between 1910 and 1940. Meisen was an innovative, quick and cost-effective dye and weaving method with the effect of labor-intensive and multicolored traditional kasuri ikat fabric. The meisen kimonos that were..... More
Osaka: Japan Color Design Center, 1959,1960,1961. 165 color plates, almost 1000 black and white. Volume 1: Designs Composed Mainly in Free Style; Volume 2: Design Composed Mainly in Geometric Arrangement; Volume 3: Designs of Ryukyu, Ainu and Foreign Textiles. More
Osaka: Japan Textile Color Design Center, 1960. 76 color plates 675 black and white. More
Tokyo: The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan, 1962. 11 color plates 22 black and white. Traditionally bound with hand made and dyed rice-paper cover. Includes chapters on traditional Japanese dye plants. More
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Co. , Ltd., 1993. 49 color plates. Great color and detail images of 16-17th century textiles in Japanese museum collections. Kyoto Shoin's Art Library of Japanese Textiles #2. Japanese-English text. More
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Co. , Ltd., 1994. 56 color plates. Great color and detail images of old Japanese costume in Japanese museum collections. Kyoto Shoin's Art Library of Japanese Textiles #10. Japanese-English text. More
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Co. , Ltd., 1993. 78 color plates. Great color and detail images of old theatrical textiles in Japanese museum collections and includes masks. Kyogen is a form of comic theater. Kyoto Shoin's Art Library of Japanese Textiles #9. Japanese-English text. More
Toyko: Thames and Hudson, 1980. 102 color plates. More
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Co. , Ltd., 1993. 83 color plates. Great color and detail images of old, famous, mostly Japanese and Chinese textiles in Japanese museum collections. Kyoto Shoin's Art Library of Japanese Textiles #19. Japanese-English text. More
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Tokyo: Mainichi Newspaper Co., 1978. 264 color plates showing 69 examples. Beautifully produced publication on the post-war yuzen dyeing technique. Examples are kimono and other textiles from the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Japanese text. More
Tokyo: ASPECT Corp. 2008. 149 color illustrations. The Chuzaburo Tanaka collection of these hemp and cotton peasant patchwork clothing from Aomori, Japan. English/Japanese text. More
