Reading the kimono in twentieth-century Japanese literature and film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suzuki, Michiko (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2023]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Kimono as Object, Language, and History
  • Literary Kimonos in The Makioka Sisters: From Prewar to Postwar
  • Visual Kimonos in The Makioka Sisters: The Occupation and the Bubble Economy Eras
  • Voices of Resistance: Kimonos in Tsuboi Sakae's 1940s-1950s Works
  • Deciphering the Geisha World: Literary and Visual Kimonos in Kōda Aya's Flowing
  • Kimono Lessons: Kōda Aya's Kimono and Its Afterlife
  • Lost Kimonos: Writing the Self in Miyao Tomiko's I-Novels
  • Conclusion: Into the Twenty-First Century.