The Stories Clothes Tell: Voices Of Working-Class Japan (Asian Voices)

Spanning decades of research, this compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing ranging from everyday kimono, work clothes, uniforms, and futons to actor s costumes, diapers, hats, aprons, and bags while simultaneously collecting oral history accounts to shed light on the lives of those who used these garments. He reveals not only the difficult and sometimes desperate lives of these people, who mostly represent the lower strata of society in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Japan, he also illuminating their hopes, their aspirations, and human values."

• | Author: Tatsuichi Horikiri, Rieko Wagoner
• | Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• | Publication Date: Apr 27, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 206 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1442265094
• | ISBN-13: 9781442265097