Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island

Download or read book Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island written by Sharon Sadako Takeda and published by Fowler Museum at UCLA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 fishermanÕs 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. Sharon Sadako Takeda is senior curator and head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Luke Roberts is an associate professor of Japanese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.