Woman Sewing Kimono (descriptive title)
- Date:
- 1898
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
A woman sewing a kimono — the laborious process of cutting and assembling the large, flat panels of silk or cotton that made up the traditional garment — depicted in Shuntei's mode of domestic genre. The making of a kimono required considerable skill and investment of time, and women's sewing was both an economic activity and a form of creative expression in the choice of fabric and the quality of the work. From 1898, this print captures the specific posture and arrangement of the task: the fabric spread out, the needle moving through the material in the quiet concentration of absorbed craft.
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Woman Sewing Kimono (descriptive title) was created by Miyagawa Shuntei (宮川春汀) in 1898.
Woman Sewing Kimono (descriptive title) depicts daily life.