Zuancho in Kyoto: Textile Design Books for the Kimono Trade

Catalogue of an exhibition in the Stanford University Libraries (January 7 April 16, 2008) of Japanese woodblock-printed books of design ideas for kimono. Generously illustrated in full color with images demonstrating the changes in surface design for kimono in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ca. 1890-1940), from a painterly style to a graphic approach characterized by kinetic lines, geometric shapes, and abstraction of traditional Japanese themes drawn from nature.