Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island (Ucla Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series, No. 5)Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island (Ucla Fowler Museum of Cultural History Textile Series, No. 5) (Amazon.com) Luke Shepherd Roberts; Sharon Sadako Takeda Publisher University of California Los Angeles, Fowler 2001. Paperback 80 pages. Plot by Amazon.com: 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 fishermanís 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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