Cover illustration: Kuroda Shizuko in kimono and Kaya Hiroko eating ice-cream on a warm spring day.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hartley, Barbara, 1951- editor.
Title: Gender, costume, textile, technique : women, clothing, cultural representation and modern Japan / Edited by Barbara Hartley.
Description: Leiden : Boston Brill, [2025] | Series: Brill’s Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; Volume 79 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024039104 (print) | LCCN 2024039105 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004710108 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004715462 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women’s clothing—Social aspects—Japan. | Clothing and dress—Japan. | Women—Japan—Social conditions. | Representation (Philosophy) | Cosplay—Japan. | Japan—Social life and customs.
Classification: LCC GT1560 .G46 2025 (print) | LCC GT1560 (ebook) | DDC 391./20952—dc23/eng/20240913
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024039104
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024039105
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ISSN 0925-6512
ISBN 978-90-04-71010-8 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-71546-2 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004715462
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