This is such a gift to me as I live in N Ireland and can't possibly get to London anyway. I took out membership on the basis that if I were ale to visit three times, it would pay for itself. However, I would love this to come a permanent feature of membership - having a one to one introduction and the visuals all to oneself to watch as many times as one could wish.
Whetting the appetite for a textile tour to Japan when travel is possible again. Japan's textiles stand in a class of their own. Beautifully presented and narrated.
Thank you very much for creating 5 videos to explain about the kimono exhibition. I really enjoyed visiting the exhibition and watching the videos. Now I enjoy wearing kimonos and reading the exhibition catalogue at home. Hope more people will be interested in kimono.
A wardrobe to hang these kimono would hide their beauty. Being able to see them as artworks makes them more special..amazing collection at the V+A. thank you.
The outfit the host wore perfectly complemented the setting. This is a beautiful exhibition and I'm so glad I can learn and enjoy seeeing this exhibition at home in times like these.
So wonderful! I love the narrator's details about kimono. Grateful this is filmed as I live in the US and won't be there in time. I did love the V&A when I was there five years ago--thanks for superlative collections!
Thank you for sharing this curator tour, it's always special to gain some insight on what goes on behind the scenes. I had pencilled in this exhibition visit since it was announced last year. Disappointed that current events halted the plan; I'm grateful the V&A has given people a chance to enjoy part of the exhibition.
i wish i could go and see these in person. i've seen many at the museums in japan and while working with them in the university of Hawaii's costume museum, but i'm always awed by the construction and artistry. I can't wait to get my museum degree and actually work with kimono again
The kimono that I have was brought from the Hawaiian Islands by neighbors before I was born. After her husband past away his wife sold it in a garage sale where I bought it. It is a man's kimono, very simple, made of light weight cotton. I believe that it is the most comfortable thing I own. Blessings on your chosen career. 🌺💐🎏🎎
Thank you so much for making these films, especially now. They are such a gift in times when so many of us are home and searching for great content to watch. Well done, can't wait to see more and look forward to one day soon, Visiting the V&A yet again!
I was really lucky to see the exhibition just before the museum closed. I didn’t see everything as I thought I would be able to go back again with my membership card. Thanks for sharing these videos, It is great to be reminded of this beautiful exhibition
Simply stunning! Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to pay a visit to the exhibition even if we weren't in quarantine since I live miles away from UK. However, it's been such a delightful experience to watch this guided tour. Bravo!
The V&A is always my to go in London and as a Kimono Collector myself I looked very much forward to this exhibition. I almost had my flights booked and tickets reserved as Covid-19 hit, so I was very disappointed that I would miss it. Thanks for putting up this virtual tour
I had a trip to London scheduled for March in which I was going to visit this exhibit. I actually cried when I had to cancel the trip. So, thank you, for offering this inside look. I still feel like I got to participate in a small way🙂
Beautiful and so well presented, I had planned to come to the exhibition with a friend . This was almost as good. So sad though all the hard work that has gone into the preparations for this only for it to sit empty of the viewing public!
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing experience! ♥️ unfortunately it will be difficult to visit to travel during these weird times, is there a gallery book to buy on this exhibition?
Oh, I'm so happy to see this VDO. This is well done and valuable with knowledge than visiting some museums for real. I love it so much. I am wondering how the kimonos are kept when they are needed to be shown somewhere else. I really want to see the real ones! If they're in Tokyo, I'll go there and visit ! Thank you :)
I would’ve enjoyed hearing about the different fibers they used, I have some old Japanese gold threads (it’s gold over a silk thread core) I’m assuming (not a good thing) the goldwork was done with the same type gold threads?
I was invited to a photo session for a bride in Japan. She had 4 or 5 changes of different Kimonos, each one had a different wig to go with it. But the best was the last one, it took my breath away. The outer garment had Cranes on it, and was done in gold thread, and the familiar orange red color. The wigs where beautiful. I hope in the Exhibition they will have some wigs. From what I see here on the video the selection is is not very extensive. I also hope they will show the Obi (belt) that goes around the waist. I would like to also differ with the curator, many of them can be thought of as works of art. The details on some of them is exquisite.
I’ve recently found out that the wide belt in the waist was so thick to disguise any hint of a woman’s waist, so she doesn’t look desirable to men. I wonder if that’s true as men also have these belts. 🤔
Kimono was introduced by Korean monk as funeral clothing in plain tan material color which Japenise copied it to make it into their own clothing with coloring because they had none.
Ok i am going to answer to this woman bit by bit after all the enormities she is saying because as a Japanese and someone whom mother and grand mother have been wearing Kimono 365 days a year for the past 100 years at least, i can't let those things being said without answering them. First of all, us Japanese do not refer to Kimono as Kimono. Kimono just means clothes in Japanese. Even western clothes are refered to as Kimono because they are clothes. What non Japanese call Kimono is what we call Wafuku, as opposed to Yofufu which means western clothes. Wafuku is the term which englobes all traditional Japanese dress, from the Peasant to the Emperor, and this is within Wafuku that you find the dozens of different types of clothing which non Japanese like to call Kimono. But for us Kimono just means clothes (not thing to wear, stop translating Japanese literally, this is not how this language is supposed to be translated). From the 16th century not every wore what non Japanese call Kimono, only 10% of the population could afford to wear that and the rest wore other types of Wafuku, made to fit their professional and social activities, but thinking that everybody wore "kimono" in Japan in the 16th century is like thinking that everybody in England at the same time dressed like members of the court ! This is ridiculous. Social status, wealth, profession and age or gender meant that you wore completely different things at that time. Kimono are not straight seamed garments at all. only the part bellow the waist is straight seamed, but the sleeves the collar, and the upper body parts are not attached in straight seams at all. It is not simply constructed at all, there is a reason why one has to study at least 10 years before getting a national certification allowing them to become a Wasaishi or Kimono tailor. Ａ very basic summer "kimono" is made from at least 8 pieces so not seven and a regular "kimono" is made of 18 pieces, but a formal winter one is made of over 30 pieces. "Kimono" are NOT the same size, try to make a Sumotori wrestler wear the Kimono or a 20 year old woman in Japan or even an average man and you will see that it won't fit. Why do you always assume that "kimono" are of the same size, this is stupid. We are not all the same size in Japan, i am 1m86 so there is not a single "kimono" which fits me unless i have it order made. No it is not the colour the pattern and the technique which expressed status and Gender it is the cut. Male and female "kimono" are completely different in the way they are cut and worn. Colour and pattern only expresses taste. This is the cut that differs depending on gender, social status, age, etc, ... Almost a piece of art to wear ? No no, it is a piece of art to wear, there is not one piece of clothing outside Japan as demanding in terms of skills and craftsmanship than "kimono", except maybe in India and in very old China and Egypt, but to have a Brit saying that Kimono is ALMOST a piece of art is hilarious given that it take 3 years of apprenticeship to enter an haute couture fashion house in Paris but 15 years to become a legally recognized "kimono" maker in Japan. A Samurai garment is not called a Kamishimo but Kami Himo Kami means Top Himo means Bottom because it is simply in two pieces a top and a bottom and it doesn't incorporate the black "kimono" worn underneath. It was also not worn by Samurai but by every man with status walking outside their house and who were carrying sword or were to travel by horse riding. So you have reduced the entire Wafuku culture of Japan to "kimono" and presented the pieces that only 10% of Japanese people wore. It is like if the Tokyo metropolitan museum made an exhibition on British fashion and only shown what queen victoria wore and called it the entire British clothing ! I will take that kind of misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Japanese clothing culture from a neophyte or some amateur but not from the Keeper, Asian Department at the V&A. And this would be nice to not put the entire Asian culture under one department. That's unbelievably patronizing to put all Asians in one departrment, a bit like if we put the whole of the western culture from the US to Russia and scandinavia to northern Africa and the mediterranean throughout history history, under one single department. Asia represents more than a third of the planet in terms of size and nearly two third in terms of population and when it comes to history, let's not forget that people in China and India (Asia) were discussing philosophy and arts wearing silk brocades and drinking tea while gazing at the moon reciting poetry and eating out of the finest tableware while people in the west had just climbed down from the trees but were still eating bananas and hunting with the mammoth bone, so a bit of respect please.
Should be "Kyoto to RUNWAY", catwalks are ABOVE the stage, for workmen handling lighting, etc.( I hope your information on the kimonos is more accurate.)
Unfortunately that's out of date. That is now a secondary meaning, and the primary meaning is the sense of "the platforms extending into the auditorium along which models walk to display clothes." Google 'define catwalk' for reference. Also, they are obviously going for the phonetic alliteration and runway would not work for that.
If you are talking about the curator, she is wearing a informal haori, and they are supposed to be worn like that, loose over other garments. As she said, kimono just mean clothes, in modern language it has come to mean clothes in the traditional japanese style. The garments displayed on the t-bars have their own name depending on style and many of them should be worn like you may be more familiar with from photos.
The fabric designs are gorgeous. They are all beautiful. The artists who made these kimonos are true artists.
This is such a gift to me as I live in N Ireland and can't possibly get to London anyway. I took out membership on the basis that if I were ale to visit three times, it would pay for itself. However, I would love this to come a permanent feature of membership - having a one to one introduction and the visuals all to oneself to watch as many times as one could wish.
Whetting the appetite for a textile tour to Japan when travel is possible again. Japan's textiles stand in a class of their own. Beautifully presented and narrated.
Thank you very much for creating 5 videos to explain about the kimono exhibition. I really enjoyed visiting the exhibition and watching the videos. Now I enjoy wearing kimonos and reading the exhibition catalogue at home. Hope more people will be interested in kimono.
I love how the V&A like many other institutions (used to) describe (-d) curators as 'keepers of collections'✨
A wardrobe to hang these kimono
would hide their beauty. Being able to see them as artworks makes them more special..amazing collection at the V+A. thank you.
Thank you for this wonderful presentation! Love the Curator, and her enthusiasm and knowledge and the Kimono were just exquisite!
The outfit the host wore perfectly complemented the setting. This is a beautiful exhibition and I'm so glad I can learn and enjoy seeeing this exhibition at home in times like these.
I bought the ticket and was ready to fly to London to enjoy this exhibition and lockdown came and ruined my plans. Thanks for allowing us a glimpse
So wonderful! I love the narrator's details about kimono. Grateful this is filmed as I live in the US and won't be there in time. I did love the V&A when I was there five years ago--thanks for superlative collections!
Thank you for sharing this curator tour, it's always special to gain some insight on what goes on behind the scenes.
I had pencilled in this exhibition visit since it was announced last year. Disappointed that current events halted the plan; I'm grateful the V&A has given people a chance to enjoy part of the exhibition.
These 5 tours of the Kimono exhibition are fantastic and give a great insight in to the cultural story behind the garment! Thank you so much.
What a lovely presentation!
i wish i could go and see these in person. i've seen many at the museums in japan and while working with them in the university of Hawaii's costume museum, but i'm always awed by the construction and artistry. I can't wait to get my museum degree and actually work with kimono again
The kimono that I have was brought from the Hawaiian Islands by neighbors before I was born. After her husband past away his wife sold it in a garage sale where I bought it. It is a man's kimono, very simple, made of light weight cotton. I believe that it is the most comfortable thing I own. Blessings on your chosen career. 🌺💐🎏🎎
I so loved this, not quite as marvellous as visiting in the flesh but for Lockdown excellent, excellent! Thank you !
Thank you so much for making these films, especially now. They are such a gift in times when so many of us are home and searching for great content to watch. Well done, can't wait to see more and look forward to one day soon, Visiting the V&A yet again!
I was really lucky to see the exhibition just before the museum closed. I didn’t see everything as I thought I would be able to go back again with my membership card. Thanks for sharing these videos, It is great to be reminded of this beautiful exhibition
Can’t wait to see this when we are free from lockdown....
Sadly, we probably won't be able to do so as it was due to close on 21 June (no extension announced yet) and I doubt lockdown will be lifted by then.
Update from the future: it wasn’t :(
Terrific! Thank you for posting this and all your Virtual Museum items. I'm loving revisiting the amazing McQueen exhibition, for example. Thank you!
Thank You. This was a beautiful presentation and so informative as well.
Simply stunning! Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to pay a visit to the exhibition even if we weren't in quarantine since I live miles away from UK. However, it's been such a delightful experience to watch this guided tour. Bravo!
The V&A is always my to go in London and as a Kimono Collector myself I looked very much forward to this exhibition. I almost had my flights booked and tickets reserved as Covid-19 hit, so I was very disappointed that I would miss it. Thanks for putting up this virtual tour
Beautifully & well presented series. Very informative. Loved watching this.
What a superb series of videos It's like being there at a personal tour. I'm learning so much more than I ever knew about Kimonos.
Great video presentation in display and spoken. Please bring it to NYC.
I had a trip to London scheduled for March in which I was going to visit this exhibit. I actually cried when I had to cancel the trip. So, thank you, for offering this inside look. I still feel like I got to participate in a small way🙂
Gorgeous
Had a date in the diary to see this exhibition. Alas, it wasn’t to be. Great to see these films and have a guided tour.
Miss your exhibitions so much!
Beautifully curated.
Beautiful and so well presented, I had planned to come to the exhibition with a friend . This was almost as good. So sad though all the hard work that has gone into the preparations for this only for it to sit empty of the viewing public!
This is so interesting. This is wonderful to watch!
This is great, thank you from Aotearoa (New Zealand)
They are exquisite! Thank you for sharing this, I live in Australia and this is the only way I get to visit the V&A. ✨✨✨
Amazing taster .
thank you for sharing! i miss the V&A!!!!!!!
very educative
Much love ❤️
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing experience! ♥️ unfortunately it will be difficult to visit to travel during these weird times, is there a gallery book to buy on this exhibition?
Oh, I'm so happy to see this VDO. This is well done and valuable with knowledge than visiting some museums for real. I love it so much. I am wondering how the kimonos are kept when they are needed to be shown somewhere else. I really want to see the real ones! If they're in Tokyo, I'll go there and visit ! Thank you :)
I once saw a kimono top coat in the Takashimaya store in Tokyo - once I'd worked out the price £100,000 - needless to say it was exquisite
very well done
Such as shame that I couldnt get to see it as I was planning to go during Easter. Will the exhibition stay open when things get back to normal?
The kimono reminds me of the animal decorated keystones of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, the oldest ancient architecture discovered to date.
merci :)
I would’ve enjoyed hearing about the different fibers they used, I have some old Japanese gold threads (it’s gold over a silk thread core) I’m assuming (not a good thing) the goldwork was done with the same type gold threads?
beautiful
Can’t lie the the tour guid reminds me so much of my teacher
I was invited to a photo session for a bride in Japan. She had 4 or 5 changes of different Kimonos, each one had a different wig to go with it. But the best was the last one, it took my breath away. The outer garment had Cranes on it, and was done in gold thread, and the familiar orange red color. The wigs where beautiful. I hope in the Exhibition they will have some wigs. From what I see here on the video the selection is is not very extensive. I also hope they will show the Obi (belt) that goes around the waist. I would like to also differ with the curator, many of them can be thought of as works of art. The details on some of them is exquisite.
The kimino is the most beautiful garment in the world.
Will the exhibition make it to the US?
Why is this in 5 parts
Is should be called T-mono, as it’s in the shape of the letter T! 😆
It should have been called T-mono, as it’s shaped like the letter T! 🙂
I’ve recently found out that the wide belt in the waist was so thick to disguise any hint of a woman’s waist, so she doesn’t look desirable to men.
I wonder if that’s true as men also have these belts. 🤔
that s a lot of fabric
I wish i could see more kimonos than the lady
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Do you mean old ages
Kimono was introduced by Korean monk as funeral clothing in plain tan material color which Japenise copied it to make it into their own clothing with coloring because they had none.
Ok i am going to answer to this woman bit by bit after all the enormities she is saying because as a Japanese and someone whom mother and grand mother have been wearing Kimono 365 days a year for the past 100 years at least, i can't let those things being said without answering them.
First of all, us Japanese do not refer to Kimono as Kimono. Kimono just means clothes in Japanese. Even western clothes are refered to as Kimono because they are clothes. What non Japanese call Kimono is what we call Wafuku, as opposed to Yofufu which means western clothes. Wafuku is the term which englobes all traditional Japanese dress, from the Peasant to the Emperor, and this is within Wafuku that you find the dozens of different types of clothing which non Japanese like to call Kimono. But for us Kimono just means clothes (not thing to wear, stop translating Japanese literally, this is not how this language is supposed to be translated).
From the 16th century not every wore what non Japanese call Kimono, only 10% of the population could afford to wear that and the rest wore other types of Wafuku, made to fit their professional and social activities, but thinking that everybody wore "kimono" in Japan in the 16th century is like thinking that everybody in England at the same time dressed like members of the court ! This is ridiculous. Social status, wealth, profession and age or gender meant that you wore completely different things at that time.
Kimono are not straight seamed garments at all. only the part bellow the waist is straight seamed, but the sleeves the collar, and the upper body parts are not attached in straight seams at all. It is not simply constructed at all, there is a reason why one has to study at least 10 years before getting a national certification allowing them to become a Wasaishi or Kimono tailor.
Ａ very basic summer "kimono" is made from at least 8 pieces so not seven and a regular "kimono" is made of 18 pieces, but a formal winter one is made of over 30 pieces.
"Kimono" are NOT the same size, try to make a Sumotori wrestler wear the Kimono or a 20 year old woman in Japan or even an average man and you will see that it won't fit. Why do you always assume that "kimono" are of the same size, this is stupid. We are not all the same size in Japan, i am 1m86 so there is not a single "kimono" which fits me unless i have it order made.
No it is not the colour the pattern and the technique which expressed status and Gender it is the cut. Male and female "kimono" are completely different in the way they are cut and worn. Colour and pattern only expresses taste. This is the cut that differs depending on gender, social status, age, etc, ...
Almost a piece of art to wear ? No no, it is a piece of art to wear, there is not one piece of clothing outside Japan as demanding in terms of skills and craftsmanship than "kimono", except maybe in India and in very old China and Egypt, but to have a Brit saying that Kimono is ALMOST a piece of art is hilarious given that it take 3 years of apprenticeship to enter an haute couture fashion house in Paris but 15 years to become a legally recognized "kimono" maker in Japan.
A Samurai garment is not called a Kamishimo but Kami Himo Kami means Top Himo means Bottom because it is simply in two pieces a top and a bottom and it doesn't incorporate the black "kimono" worn underneath. It was also not worn by Samurai but by every man with status walking outside their house and who were carrying sword or were to travel by horse riding.
So you have reduced the entire Wafuku culture of Japan to "kimono" and presented the pieces that only 10% of Japanese people wore. It is like if the Tokyo metropolitan museum made an exhibition on British fashion and only shown what queen victoria wore and called it the entire British clothing !
I will take that kind of misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Japanese clothing culture from a neophyte or some amateur but not from the Keeper, Asian Department at the V&A. And this would be nice to not put the entire Asian culture under one department. That's unbelievably patronizing to put all Asians in one departrment, a bit like if we put the whole of the western culture from the US to Russia and scandinavia to northern Africa and the mediterranean throughout history history, under one single department.
Asia represents more than a third of the planet in terms of size and nearly two third in terms of population and when it comes to history, let's not forget that people in China and India (Asia) were discussing philosophy and arts wearing silk brocades and drinking tea while gazing at the moon reciting poetry and eating out of the finest tableware while people in the west had just climbed down from the trees but were still eating bananas and hunting with the mammoth bone, so a bit of respect please.
Should be "Kyoto to RUNWAY", catwalks are ABOVE the stage, for workmen handling lighting, etc.( I hope your information on the kimonos is more accurate.)
Unfortunately that's out of date. That is now a secondary meaning, and the primary meaning is the sense of "the platforms extending into the auditorium along which models walk to display clothes." Google 'define catwalk' for reference.
Also, they are obviously going for the phonetic alliteration and runway would not work for that.
Kimono originated from Hanfu, our clothes. Plz learn u r contry. Lol
Should have made a better effort in wearing a kimono correctly
If you are talking about the curator, she is wearing a informal haori, and they are supposed to be worn like that, loose over other garments. As she said, kimono just mean clothes, in modern language it has come to mean clothes in the traditional japanese style. The garments displayed on the t-bars have their own name depending on style and many of them should be worn like you may be more familiar with from photos.
yep get the white British lady to teach us about Kimono!