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How Do Kimonos Influence The West?

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Kimonos have not limited themselves to Japan or even just Asia and the East, but have ventured out towards influencing the West as well. At first people from the West didn’t think too highly of kimonos and considered them as not much different then bathrobes. However, a European artist named James Tissot focused less on the kimono’s function and more in on the designs, materials, and silhouettes of them. Through his work Japan’s exotic nature became known to others. Sometime later Westerns got kimonos mixed together with geisha (げいしゃ), a teahouse maiden, in an erotic way. This led to Westerners to gaining an interest in Japanese women through creating and buying erotic paintings of them while wearing kimonos. After that, people of the West
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