Kimono showcases a magnificent range of kimonos from the the Khalili Collection, which comprises more than 200 garments and spans almost 300 years of Japanese textile artistry. Gorgeously illustrated and written by an international team of experts, the book surveys kimono of the imperial court, samurai aristocracy, and affluent merchant classes of the Edo period (1603-1868); the shifting styles and new color palette of Meiji period dress (1868-1912) ; and the bold and dazzling kimono of the Taisho (1912-26) and early Showa (1926-89) periods, when designers used innovative new techniques and fused traditional looks with inspiration from the modernist aesthetic then sweeping the world

• Clad in the aesthetics of tradition: from kosode to kimono / Nagasaki Iwao
• Timon Screech
• Anna Jackson
• Christine M. E. Guth
• Anna Jackson
• Kendall H. Brown
• Anna Jackson Governing, spending and wearing in the Edo period / Dress in the Edo period: the evolution of fashion / The Meiji era: the ambiguities of modernization / Dress in the Meiji period: change and continuity / Delirious Japan: politics, culture and art in the Taisho and early Showa periods / Dress in the Taisho and early Showa periods: traditions transformed /