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"Oshima tsumugi" Kagoshima fabric

People wearing kimono made of "Oshima tsumugi" silk pongee walk in a commercial district in Amami in Kagoshima Prefecture on Jan. 5, 2024, to promote the specialty of the southwestern Japan city.

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Kimono exhibition combines Kagoshima fabric with Kyoto sash

AMAMI, Japan - A model wears a kimono made of white "Oshima tsumugi" silk pongee, a specialty of Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan, with an "obi" sash of "Nishijin-ori" from Kyoto, western Japan, on the starting day of a kimono exhibition in Amami on Nov. 14, 2014.

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Women on a veranda

Five elderly women gather on an engawa porch with paper screen doors. Some of them are wearing high-grade silk or pongee kimono and holding fans. The woman with a child on her knees might be the mother-in-law. Probably taken in the late Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐36‐0]

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Kimono exhibition combines Kagoshima fabric with Kyoto sash

AMAMI, Japan - A model wears a kimono made of white "Oshima tsumugi" silk pongee, a specialty of Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan, with an "obi" sash of "Nishijin-ori" from Kyoto, western Japan, on the starting day of a kimono exhibition in Amami on Nov. 14, 2014. (Kyodo)