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Part 11

Worcester Wedding Kimono, Pt. II

everver wondered about how to put on a kimono? In the final installation of our virtual exhibition, watch how professional kimono dressers, Matsuko Levin and Yumiko Shimada, get our specially-commissioned, Chiso wedding kimono ready for our in-house exhibition, The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design, which opens today and runs until May 2, 2021!

About this kimono

A Preview of The Kimono in Print:
300 Years of Japanese Design

  • 1698·Japan

    Actor Sawamura Kodenji as Tsuyu-no-Mae

    • Torii Kiyonubu (Japanese, 1664-1729)

    • Woodblock print with hand-applied color (tan-e); 53.2 x 30.9 cm.

    • Worcester Art Museum, John Chandler Bancroft Collection

  • 1794-5·Japan

    Needlework

    • Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1754-1806)

    • Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; 37.4 x 76.1 cm

    • Worcester Art Museum, John Chandler Bancroft Collection

  • 1918·Japan

    Woman in a Long Undergarment

    • Goyo Hashiguchi (Japanese, 1880-1921)

    • Color woodblock, graduated colors, blind embossing, and burnishing

    • Worcester Art Museum, John Chandler Bancroft Collection