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Children’s kimonos

This unique special exhibition on children’s kimonos exclusively features items from the remarkable Nakano Kazuko collection from Yamagata in northern Japan. This is the first time that these objects are on public display, and this is the first exhibition in Europe to be exclusively devoted to the subject of children’s kimonos. All of the more than 90 children’s kimonos originate from the Edo period (1603–1867) up to the Shôwa period (1926–1989). In today’s cultural consciousness of Japan and other countries, the kimono is still regarded as a symbol of Japanese tradition.