A guided tour of Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono.

Wrapped in Silk and Gold presents for the first time the Museum's recently acquired collection of deluxe kimono, haori, obi, and other traditional Japanese women's garments. Dating from the 1930s through the end of the 20th century, these garments trace changing fashions as the function of kimono changed over the course of time, as well as the arc of a woman's lifetime from youth to maturity. The works in the exhibition are the generous gift of the Yamaguchi family, and were made for and worn by a mother and daughter living in Tokyo.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the University of Michigan's Center for Japanese Studies, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Charles H. & Katharine C. Sawyer Endowment Fund, The Japan Foundation, New York, the CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation.