Word: kimonoed
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...