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Beauty and Sadness (novel)
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Beauty and Sadness is a 1961–63 novel by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is narrated from the present and past perspective of the characters and how they differed from
Beauty and Sadness (novel)
Image of Yasunari Kawabata
Image of Yasunari Kawabata
Kimono
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The kimono is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan. The kimono is a wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, and is worn left side wrapped over right
A Zen temple-goer wearing a formal cherry-blossom-motif kimono
A Zen temple-goer wearing a formal cherry-blossom-motif kimono
A rakugoka (storyteller) wearing kimono and 5-mon haori
A rakugoka (storyteller) wearing kimono and 5-mon haori
A man and a woman wearing formal kimono, for a 1923 wedding (other views)
A man and a woman wearing formal kimono, for a 1923 wedding (other views)
Mural in the Takamatsuzuka Tomb, c. 700 CE. Each woman wears a loose-fitting wrap-front robe over a brightly-coloured mо̄ [ja] skirt.
Mural in the Takamatsuzuka Tomb, c. 700 CE. Each woman wears a loose-fitting wrap-front robe over a brightly-coloured mо̄ [ja] skirt.