On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Helen Pinto wrote:
andy wrote:
Does anybody have better resources
on earlier Japanese costume, say Heian and Kamakura styles?
There's a great new book:
Kure, Mitsuo, _Samurai: Arms, Armor, Costume_, Chartwell Books,
London, UK, 2007, ISBN: 0785822089, ISBN-13: 9780785822080
It lists for $19.99US, but lots of places have it cheaper; I got my
copy for
around $12. Most of the costumes depicted are pre-Edo, and each is
given at least four pages of pictures, text, and diagrams.
Costumes are
shown from different angles, and in various stages of assembly.
There are
much more of the mens' costumes than the womens', and lots of armor.
The text is very entertaining.
Thank you, this is exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for
(menswear is often an afterthought in so many costume books).
andy
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