'kimono' pronun & use

[Joel S. Berson]

And in art -- viz. Van Gogh's paintings "Bridge in the Rain" and "Plum Tree
in Bloom", 1887, after woodblock prints of Hiroshige.

Joel

At 6/21/2005 02:39 PM, you wrote:
>But the kimono itself first caught Western interest in the Victorian era.
>I think it dates back to Anglo-American fascination with Meiji-era Japan
>in the 1880s, famously reflected in Gilbert and Sullivan's _Mikado_ (Mike
>Leigh's 1999 film _Topsy-Turvy_ captures this Japanophilia vividly).