Shima-cho: stripe albums

[bebemochi]

In the book "Kimono" by Liza Dalby it talks about the ethnographer Fukui Sadako and her efforts to obtain shima-cho, sample books of fabric that a new bride would take to her new home as part of her trousseaux. Later she would add weaves of her own and hand it down to her daughter.
Does anyone know more about these sample books? Presumably the practise has died out, so are the remaining articles mainly kept in museums or have any of you come across them at auctions?
Im also wondering if anyone has any further information about the ethnographers Segawa Kiyoko and Yanagita Kunio especially where i might find articles published by them particularly Segawas "Kimono", in Japanese is fine. I hope it is still available SOMEWHERE!!!
Bebemochi

[Kiyoaki]

Dear Bebemochi,

Probably the only one that can really shed light on your question is the author, herself. Liza lives in the Bay area, and is a professor at U.C. Berkeley, in the anthropology department. You should be able to e-mail her there, though I don't know her address. I did a quick check of her liner notes for an e-mail listing, but didn't find one

Kiyoaki.

P.S. Try "[e-mail]", or some such thing.

[Kiyoaki]

Bebemochi,

I came across an album of 'shima-cho' on E-bay. The item number is #1523590442 and the seller's name is 'donaldheald". Currently, the bid is at $100.00, but the auction has seven days to go. Check it out.

I have considered bidding on it, and if you pass on the idea, I may still do it. Right now, I have a number of bids developing so I can't say for certain, whether I will or won't. Ideally, I'd want to afford everything, but that isn't very fair to others nor practical to myself, so I'm spreading the word.

Kiyoaki