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The book delves into the significance of woodblock prints in Edo-period Japan, showcasing 170 ukiyo-e artworks that capture the vibrant culture of entertainment and fashion. It highlights the urban glamour of the time, featuring detailed depictions of styles, accessories, and hairstyles. Curators provide insights into the artists, including Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Hiroshige, enriching the reader's understanding of these colorful images and their cultural context.

Set against a richly detailed historical backdrop, this novel weaves a captivating narrative that immerses readers in the lives of its characters. It explores themes of resilience, love, and the impact of historical events on personal lives. The story unfolds through the eyes of individuals facing societal challenges and moral dilemmas, highlighting their struggles and triumphs. With vivid descriptions and well-researched context, the book offers an engaging journey through a pivotal time in history, making it a must-read for fans of historical fiction.

This series celebrates the V+A's status as a source of inspiration for designers, reflecting the unique breadth and depth of a collection that represents over 3000 years of objects from all over the world. Kimono features some of the best Japanese textile patterns at the V+A ranging over 200 years from the early nineteenth century. The other books in this second instalment of the V+A Pattern series are Owen Jones, Novelty Patterns and Garden Florals. The pocket sized books make attractive and collectable gifts but are also a valuable source of ideas for designers of all kinds. Each book includes a short introduction to put the patterns in context plus a free CD of the images inside, which can be redrawn or reworked. Commercial designers looking to license patterns and individual motifs from the collection can use the books as a starting point for research. The books are available individually or as a stylish boxed set (9781851776078).

The word “maharaja” – literally “great king” – conjures up a vision of splendor and magnificence: ropes of pearls, huge diamonds, jeweled turbans, elaborately carved furniture, shimmering textiles in every imaginable color. This lavishly illustrated book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan.The book explores the spectacular material culture of India’s rulers, showcasing rich and varied objects that reflect different aspects of royal life. Paintings, photographs, textiles and dress, jewelry, jeweled objects, metalwork, and furniture— Indian objects as well as pieces imported to India from the West—are considered within a broader historical context, exploring royal status and identity, court culture and patronage.