Kimono: Osaka’s golden age: 15 May to 14 September 2008

Kimono: Osaka ’s golden age 15 May to 14 September 2008 Immigration Museum , 400 Flinders St, Melbourne http://museumvictoria.com.au/ImmigrationMuseum/WhatsOn/Current-Exhibitions/Kimono/ Discover breathtakingly beautiful kimono and accessories from the glory days of Japan . This extraordinary exhibition, highlighting the wealth and prosperity of the Edo and Meiji periods (1850-1900), is showing exclusively at the Immigration Museum . Direct from the Osaka Museum of History, the stunning collection celebrates the Immigration Museum ’s 10th birthday and 30 years of the Melbourne-Osaka sister-city relationship. If you think your class might enjoy an excursion to see fabulous costumes – the children’s Shichi-go-san kimono,the fireman’s heavy cotton quilted coat with gloves, hood and socks and the special white kimono with long sleeves called the Shiromuku for the wedding ceremony – then consult your calendar and make a booking as places will fill fast.  For more details please click here

 

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