“This design is a traditional motif of scissors and roses,” Maki Yamamoto says, pointing to an obi that has caught my eye at her pop-up shop and exhibition in Tokyo’s Azabu Hills complex. “Roses once ...

Maki Yamamoto has spent the last eight years trying to reframe how Palestinians are seen in her native land of Japan. Her weapon of choice is the Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project, which fuses the ...

From geisha gown to 21st-Century fashion statement, the kimono is a quintessentially Japanese garment entrenched in symbolism From a first visit to the shrine to coming of age and marriage ceremonies, ...

So this is, perhaps, an ideal time to consider the kimono. The T-shaped Japanese robe, which has inspired countless Western garments, complicates the conversation about what we’re allowed to adopt ...

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Yamamoto Maki’s visit to the West Bank four years ago inspired her to launch a social-enterprise-style business producing obi sashes decorated with traditional Palestinian embroidery for upscale ...

From a first visit to the shrine to coming of age and marriage ceremonies, the kimono plays an integral role in Japanese society. It is worn at key moments in a person’s life as well as being donned ...