Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

The kimono is more than an artefact and more than clothing. It is a concept artists will make their own

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par Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University

The kimono garment, the national dress of Japan, carries within itself all of the magic and traditions of Japanese culture.

The basic features of the kimono are fairly simple. It is a wrapped front garment with square sleeves that has a rectangular body where the left side is wrapped over the right, except in funerary use.

The garment may be traced back to the Heian period as a distinctive style of dress for the nobility. In the Edo period (1603–1867) it came to a glorious culmination with colourful…

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