Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island - UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series

Sharon Sadako Takeda, Luke Shepherd Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara

Hardback (01 Dec 2001)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A lasting contribution to the study of Japanese textiles and to the cultural history of the Inland Sea region, this volume presents a historical ethnography of the fishing villages that produced the sashiko no donza, or fisherman's coat. It provides as well an in-depth analysis of regional textile production, the sashiko tradition in the village of Hokudan, and the iconography of the eloquently stitched designs that appear on the coats.

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Fowler Museum at UCLA

The Press traces its origins to 1915, when Edmond Meany's Governors of Washington, Territorial and State was issued. The first book to bear the University of Washington Press imprint, an edition of The Poems of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey edited by Frederick M. Padelford, appeared in 1920. Since that time the Press has published approximately 4,400 books, of which about 1,400 are currently in print. Today we publish about seventy new titles each year. From the beginning the Press has reflected the University's major academic strengths. Building on those strengths, combined with a vigorous creativity in developing regional partners, the University of Washington Press has achieved recognition as the leading publisher of scholarly books and distinguished works of regional nonfiction in the Pacific Northwest.

ISBN:	9780930741853
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Imprint:	Fowler Museum at UCLA
Pub date:	01 Dec 2001
DEWEY:	391.1
DEWEY edition:	21
Number of pages:	80
Weight:	712g
Height:	305mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	13mm