The Silk Weavers Of Kyoto
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The Silk Weavers Of Kyoto
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Author : Tamara Hareven
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-01-15
The Silk Weavers Of Kyoto written by Tamara Hareven and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-15 with Political Science categories.
The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for kimono, they find their livelihood and pride harder to sustain. This book is a poignant exploration of a vanishing world. Tamara Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, and community in this highly specialized occupation. Hareven uses her knowledge of textile workers' lives in the United States and Western Europe to show how striking similarities in weavers' experiences transcend cultural differences. These very rich personal testimonies, taken over a decade and a half, provide insight into how these men and women have juggled family and work roles and coped with insecurities. Readers can learn firsthand how weavers perceive their craft and how they interpret their lives and view the world around them. With rare immediacy, The Silk Weavers of Kyoto captures a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
The Silk Weavers Of Kyoto
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Author : Tamara K. Hareven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-08
The Silk Weavers Of Kyoto written by Tamara K. Hareven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08 with categories.
The makers of żobi,ż the elegant & costly sash worn over żkimonoż in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, & other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, however, as a result of declining markets for żkimono,ż they find their livelihood & pride harder to sustain. This is a poignant & sensitive exploration of a vanishing world, where young people do not want to perform the hard work of weaving like their parents. Hareven integrates historical research with intensive life history interviews to reveal the relationships among family, work, & community in this highly specialized occupation. Illustrations.
Hakata
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Author : Andrew Cobbing
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Hakata written by Andrew Cobbing and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with History categories.
In Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu, experts in various fields present an interdisciplinary collection offering diverse insights on a region that has long served a key hub in the transcultural networks linking Japan with the outside world.
Kimono Style Edo Traditions To Modern Design
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Author : Monika Bincsik
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2022-06-04
Kimono Style Edo Traditions To Modern Design written by Monika Bincsik and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-04 with Art categories.
Japan’s engagement with Western clothing, culture, and art in the mid-nineteenth century transformed the traditional kimono and began a cross-cultural sartorial dialogue that continues to this day. This publication explores the kimono’s fascinating modern history and its notable influence on Western fashion. Initially signaling the wearer’s social position, marital status, age, and wealth, older kimono designs gave way to the demands of modernized and democratized twentieth-century lifestyles as well as the preferences of the emancipated “new woman.” Conversely, inspiration from the kimono’s silhouette liberated Western designers such as Paul Poiret and Madeline Vionnet from traditional European tailoring. Juxtaposing never-before-published Japanese textiles from the John C. Weber Collection with Western couture, this book places the kimono on the stage of global fashion history.
Living Over The Store
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Author : Howard Davis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-02-13
Living Over The Store written by Howard Davis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-13 with Architecture categories.
The shop/house – the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings – appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive account of this common but overlooked building. The merchant's house in northern European cities, the Asian shophouse, the apartment building on New York avenues, typical apartment buildings in Rome and in Paris – this variety of shop/houses along with the commonality of attributes that form them, mean that the hybrid phenomenon is as much a social and economic one as it is an architectural one. Professionals, city officials and developers are taking a new look at buildings that allow for higher densities and mixed-use. Describing exemplary contemporary projects and issues pertaining to their implementation as well as the background, cultural variety and urban attributes, this book will benefit designers dealing with mixed-use buildings as well as academics and students.
Industrial Districts In History And The Developing World
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Author : Tomoko Hashino
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-11
Industrial Districts In History And The Developing World written by Tomoko Hashino and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-11 with Business & Economics categories.
This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present. Industrial districts, which refer to the geographical concentration of enterprises producing similar or closely related commodities in a small area, play a significant role in the development of manufacturing industries not only historically in Europe and Japan but also at present in emerging East Asian economies, such as China and Vietnam and low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The book identifies similarities in the development patterns of industrial districts in history and the present and analyzes the reasons for these similarities. More specifically, the book examines whether Marshallian agglomeration economies provide sufficient explanations and seeks to deepen understanding about the important factors that are missing. Despite the common issues addressed by economic historians and development economists regarding the advantages of industrial districts for industrial development, discussion of these issues between the two groups of researchers has been largely absent, or at best weak. The purpose of this book is to integrate the results of case studies by economic historians interested in France, Spain, and Japan and those by development economists interested in the contemporary industries still developing in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Tanzania, and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Fashionable Traditions
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Author : Ayami Nakatani
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2020-01-28
Fashionable Traditions written by Ayami Nakatani and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-28 with Social Science categories.
Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the contributors to this collection demonstrate the multilayered influence of often contradictory forces. In-depth, ethnographic case studies reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers, while acknowledging the broader frameworks in which such relationships are situated. Together these stories offer a vivid account of the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics in various parts of Asia and emphasize that fashion is neither a Western prerogative nor do its roots reside solely in the West.
Designs Of Kyoto
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Author : K. Hasegawa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
Designs Of Kyoto written by K. Hasegawa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Decoration and ornament, Japanese categories.
Families History And Social Change
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Author : Tamara K Hareven
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-05
Families History And Social Change written by Tamara K Hareven and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Social Science categories.
One of the prevailing myths about the American family is that there once existed a harmonious family with three generations living together, and that this "ideal" family broke down under the impact of urbanization and industralization. The essays in this volume challenge this myth and provide dramatic revisions of simplistic notions about change in the American family. Based on detailed research in a variety of sources, including extensive oral history interviews of ordinary people, these essays examine major changes in family life, dispel myths about the past, and offer new directions in research and interpretation. The essays cover a wide spectrum of issues and topics, ranging from the organization of the family and household, to the networks available to children as they grow up, to the role of the family in the process of industralization, to the division of labor in the family along gender lines, and to the relations between the generations in the later years of life. While discussing family relations in the past and revising prevailing notions of social change, these interdisciplinary essays also provide important perspectives on the present.
Textiles Production Trade And Demand
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Author : Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Textiles Production Trade And Demand written by Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with History categories.
This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of new markets and responses to competition in the cloth trade, evolving techniques and modes of production, and changes in the patterns of consumption of local and imported cloth in a comparative, cross-cultural context.