Furisode (long-sleeved kimono), 19th century, Japan. “Long-sleeved light blue silk satin robe (furisode) with design of sprays of narcissus and lines suggesting water embroidered with green, white and yellow silk.”
I wish a woman could have action in her life, like a man. It agitates me to pain that the skyline over there is ever our limit. I long sometimes for a power of vision that would overpass it. If I could behold all I imagine…
Mia Wasikowska in the title role of Jane Eyre (2011, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)