Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Installation view of Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, on view June 7, 2022 – February 20, 2023 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Bruce Schwarz, Courtesy of The Met

Noh costume (atsuita) with checkered ground and chrysanthemums in stream. Edo period (1615–1868), 18th century. Twill-weave silk with silk supplementary weft patterning. 54 x 53 in. (137 x 134.6 cm). John C. Weber Collection. Image © The Metropolitan Muse

Summer robe (hito-e) with court carriage and waterside scene. Edo period (1615–1868), early 19th century. Gauze-weave silk with stencil paste-resist dyeing, stencil-dyed dots (suri-bitta), hand-painted details, silk embroidery, and couched gold thread. 72

Over robe (uchikake) with Genji wheels and wild ginger leaves. Edo period (1615–1868), early 19th century. Figured satinweave silk (rinzu) with silk embroidery and couched gold thread. 68 x 46 1/4 in. (172.7 x 117.5 cm). John C. Weber Collection. Image ©

Obi (kakeshita-obi) with shell-matching game boxes. Edo period (1615–1868), late 18th century. Satin-weave silk with silk embroidery and couched gold thread. 10 in. x 12 ft. 6 in. (25.4 x 381 cm). John C. Weber Collection. Image © The Metropolitan Museum

Cosmetic stand (kushi-dai) with pine, bamboo, and cherry blossom from a wedding set. Edo period (1615–1868), early 19th century. Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, cut-out gold foil application on nashiji ground. H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm

Beauty of the Kanbun era. Edo period (1615–1868), late 17th century. Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper. Image: 24 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (61.3 x 24.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burk

Hon’ami Kōetsu (Japanese, 1558–1637). Poem from the Meager Gleanings (Shūi gusō). Edo period (1615–1868), ca. late 1620s–early 1630s. Hanging scroll; ink on paper with mica, mounted with tsujigahana silk. Image: 7 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (20 x 16.8 cm). John C. W

Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815). Enjoying the evening cool on the banks of the Sumida River. Edo period (1615– 1868), ca. 1784. Diptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. Dimensions: A: H. 15 in. (38.1 cm); W. 10 in. (25.4 cm).

Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, 1618–1694). A visit to the Yoshiwara (detail). Edo period (1615–1868), 1680s. Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper. 21 5/16 in. x 57 ft. 9 7/16 in. (54.1 x 1761.4 cm). John C. Weber Collection. Photo by John Bigelow Tayl

Battle surcoat (jinbaori) with tattered fan. Edo period (1615– 1868), early 19th century. Wool (rasha). 34 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (87.6 x 72.4 cm). John C. Weber Collection. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Paul Lachenauer

Fireman’s jacket (hikeshi-banten) with Shogun Tarō Yoshikado. Edo period (1615–1868), mid-19th century. Quilted cotton with tube-drawn paste-resist dyeing (tsutsugaki) with hand-painted details. 36 x 49 in. (91.4 x 124.5 cm). John C. Weber Collection. Ima

Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide (1807–1878/79). Banner with Shōki, the Demon Queller. Edo period (1615–1868), 1840s. Ink and color on cotton. 68 1/8 x 37 3/8 in. (173 × 95 cm). John C. Weber Collection. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Paul Lac

Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu (Japanese, 1838–1912). “Court Ladies Sewing Western Clothing” (Jokan yōfuku saihō no zu). Meiji period (1868–1912), August 23rd, 1887. Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. Image: 14 5/16 x 29 11/16

Inoue Yasuji (Japanese, 1864–1889). “Peaceful Pleasures of the Highest Nobility” (Kyōraku taihei kiken zu). Meiji period (1868–1912), 1887. Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper. Image : 14 3/8 x 29 3/8 in. (36.5 x 74.6 cm). The

Coat, Iida & Co./Takashimaya (Japanese, founded 1831). ca. 1900. Silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph L. Brotherton, 1985 (1985.362.2). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Paul Lachenauer

“Paris” coat, Paul Poiret (French, Paris 1879–1944 Paris). 1919. Silk, wool, metallic thread. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2005 (2005.207). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Summer kimono (hito-e) with swirls. Taishō (1912–26)–Shōwa period (1926–89), 1920s–30s. Printed gauze-weave (ro) silk with twisted wefts. 60 13/16 × 45 in. (154.5 × 114.3 cm). Promised Gift of John C. Weber. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo b

Meisen kimono with water droplets. Shōwa period (1926–89), ca. 1930–40. Plain-weave reeled-silk warps with machine-spun silk wefts in double ikat (heiyō-gasuri). 59 x 49 1/4 in. (149.9 x 125.1 cm). Promised Gift of John C. Weber. Image © The Metropolitan

Meisen kimono with large checkered pattern. Shōwa period (1926–89), ca. 1930s. Plain-weave machine-spun silk in resistdyed large ikat (ōgasuri) with gold-thread weft. 57 x 47 in. (144.8 x 119.4 cm). Promised Gift of John C. Weber. Image © The Metropolitan

Man’s under kimono (nagajuban) with Mount Fuji. Shōwa period (1926–89), second quarter 20th century. Plain-weave silk with stitched tie-dyeing. 53 9/16 × 52 3/4 in. (136 × 134 cm). Promised Gift of John C. Weber. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ph

Child’s winter kimono with Mickey Mouse. Shōwa period (1926–89), ca. 1930s. Plain-weave cotton with roller printing. 35 7/16 x 35 7/16 in. (90 x 90 cm). Promised Gift of John C. Weber. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Paul Lachenauer

Evening wrap, House of Balenciaga (French, founded 1937), Cristobal Balenciaga (Spanish, 1895–1972). 1951. Silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Baroness Philippe de Rothschild, 1973 (1973.21.3). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sweater, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969). Rei Kawakubo (Japanese, born 1942). 1983. Wool. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gould Family Foundation Gift, in memory of Jo Copeland, 2019 (2019.153). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Coat, Yohji Yamamoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1943). Spring/summer 1983. Cotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gould Family Foundation Gift, in memory of Jo Copeland, 2011 (2011.288). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"UKIYOE," Hanae Mori (Japanese, born 1926). Fall/winter 1983–84. Silk, glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Hanae Mori, 2004 (2004.467.4) Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Coat dress, Maison Margiela (French, founded 1988). John Galliano (British, born Gibraltar, 1960). Fall/winter 2015–16, Artisanal. Polyester, cotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Maison Margiela, in honor of Harold Koda, 2016 (2016.401a–c). Ima

Coat, Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969). Rei Kawakubo (Japanese, born 1942). Spring/summer 2018. Polyester, nylon. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Various Donors, by exchange, 2018 (2018.650a–c). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art