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gurdymonkey) wrote2009-02-21 06:11 pm
gurdymonkey) wrote2009-02-21 06:11 pm
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Bookses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I needed to get away from the contractors next door and their damned scissor lift, so I went to Moe's in Berkeley.
First stop, the second floor. Nothing I had to have in the Asian literature nook, but I did score a bilingual edition of Japanese Tradition In Color And Form with photos by Sadao Hibi, primarily because it had some excellent photos of two period hiogi. I also stumbled across a cheap, used copy of Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Since I'm about halfway through her The Passion of Artemisia and enjoying it, it was worth grabbing.
Upstairs I managed not to drool on the pages as I perused at $225 copy of My Costumes: Emi Wada. Wada-san is responsible for costuming a number of Kurosawa films, including Ran. (More recently, she worked on Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Mongol.) Gorgeous stuff and too rich for my library. I did, however, throw myself on a Japan Society edition of The Tokugawa Collection: No Robes and Masks at $50. While most of the costumes therein date from the Edo period, some of them are at least early 17th century and are clearly within the stylistic ball park of what I'm interested in.
BTW, anyone interested in a copy of Alan Kennedy's Japanese Costume? Moe's has it for $35.
First stop, the second floor. Nothing I had to have in the Asian literature nook, but I did score a bilingual edition of Japanese Tradition In Color And Form with photos by Sadao Hibi, primarily because it had some excellent photos of two period hiogi. I also stumbled across a cheap, used copy of Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Since I'm about halfway through her The Passion of Artemisia and enjoying it, it was worth grabbing.
Upstairs I managed not to drool on the pages as I perused at $225 copy of My Costumes: Emi Wada. Wada-san is responsible for costuming a number of Kurosawa films, including Ran. (More recently, she worked on Hero, House of Flying Daggers, and Mongol.) Gorgeous stuff and too rich for my library. I did, however, throw myself on a Japan Society edition of The Tokugawa Collection: No Robes and Masks at $50. While most of the costumes therein date from the Edo period, some of them are at least early 17th century and are clearly within the stylistic ball park of what I'm interested in.
BTW, anyone interested in a copy of Alan Kennedy's Japanese Costume? Moe's has it for $35.
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Hrm, did a bit of searching, (often, I'm never quick enough to speak, and while I'm searching, someone else chimes in), and it seems amazon has it a bit cheaper (used, of course).
So instead of deleting the comment, I'll leave it stand because it'd be confusing otherwise as you probably get email confirmation of your comments.
Apologies. I was just so excited to see it. I'm assuming it comes highly recommended?
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Kennedy deals mainly with the kosode, Noh costumes and Buddhist kesa from the 16th through 19th centuries. Lots of lavish color plates, including swoonworthy detail shots of pretties.
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158.46 Canadian.
:)