India-Japan, Sari-Kimono:Metaphors, Affinities and Aesthetic

摘要

The kimono has often been placed in contradistinction to the West in both popular and scholarly perceptions. During the Meiji period, according to anthropologist Liza Dalby (1993), the kimono epitomized Japanese dress and came to embody traditional Japanese values diametrically opposed to the West. In his book The Kimono Mind: An Informal Guide to Japan and the Japanese (1965), Bernard Rudofsky spoke of the kimono as a metaphor of Japaneseness for the Western observer.