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| Komon
sample book. One hundred textile patterns samples printed on paper and pasted on twenty-five pages. 21x15 cm Mid 19th century. For a discussion on this kind of book see the chapter by Nagasaki Iwao,
Designs for a Thousand Ages: Printed Pattern Books and Kosode in
Gluckman & Takeda, When Art Became Fashion Kosode in Edo-Period Japan.
New York 1992, p.111-112. |
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