The Kimono Gallery

Sakura 2013 (by mrTosh).  Japan

miki katoh, 2007

Zuiki Matsuri 2013 - Maiko Katsune, Maiko Satohana, Geiko Naokazu, Kamishichiken (by Tamayura)

Section Japon du musée Guimet

Stone statue at Hokoku-ji temple, Kamakura, Japan報国寺　鎌倉.  Photography by Buzz on ganref.  Thank you, Kumi Ito

Hase-dera temple, Nara, Japan長谷寺　奈良.   Photography by mptfk 

Ugetsu monogatari (1953) by shanghai Іily on Flickr.

Yoroikizomeshiki event at Kamigamo shrine, Kyoto, Japan 鎧着初　上賀茂神社.  These boys are re-enacting samurai warriors of a bygone era.  Image via Kumi Ito on Pinterest

Preparatory drawing (hanshita-e) for an illustrated book, mounted on card. Taifengshan generating the life force of heaven and earth. Ink on paper. Painted by: Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎), 1829 © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Japan, 1958.  

Toyooka of the Maru-Ebiya. Ukiyo-e woodblock print.  About 1800,  Japan.  Artist Utagawa Toyokuni I

Rakan.  [wiki]: Otagi Nenbutsu-ji is a Buddhist temple in the  Arashiyama neighborhood of Kyoto, Japan. Inside the temple are more than 1200 rakan, stone statues representing the disciples of Buddha. The sculptures were donated in 1981 in honor of the refurbishment of the temple. Most were carved by amateurs, taught by sculptor Kocho Nishimura.  Photography by Stephane Barbery on Flickr

Dali kimono

Beauty by Ikeda Terukata（1883-1921）

Showa 5 (1930), performance of Matsuazasasai Tenka Ichiza in Shintenchi, Osaka “High-voltage current large magnet” (repost). The content is a strange magic that the girl in the center shortcut attaches a knife that looks like a male genitalia, the man next to it applies a high voltage current, the knife discharges the girls’ rods and the annular light bulb comes on.Text and images by and via  Old Picture 1900

Exhibition:59th East Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition