“Unraveling Changes in Dress through Early Photographic Sources: Women’s Japanese Attire from the Late Edo Period to the Meiji Era,” an exhibition that follows shifts in how women wore kimono as captured in photographs from the late Edo and Meiji periods, is on view at Marubeni Gallery on the third floor of the Marubeni headquarters, next door to the Palaceside Building. The distinctive show, drawing on Marubeni’s rich textile collection, runs through January 24 next year.
The conventions of Japanese dress were established in the Edo period and unfolded in many directions in the Meiji era. Influenced as well by Western clothing, washoku entered a brilliant chapter. Using rare photographs and documents from the late Edo period onward, the exhibition reconstructs how garments were worn, pairing them with kimono, obi, and accessories of the time from the Marubeni Collection.
Marubeni Gallery is closed on Sundays, national holidays, and from December 26 through January 4. Admission is 500 yen for adults; visitors in kimono, yukata, or other Japanese dress enter free.