Poiret was influenced by antique and regional dress, and favored clothing cut along straight lines and constructed of rectangles.

Japanese swords are still commonly seen today ; antique and modernly forged swords can easily be found and purchased.

In Japan, genuine edged hand-made Japanese swords, whether antique or modern, are classified as art objects ( and not weapons ) and must have accompanying certification in order to be legally owned.

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) tachi tsuka. jpg | Close up view of an antique tachi tsuka ( handle ), one of the " ashi " ( sword hanger ) can be seen.

An antique Japanese wakizashi with koshirae and related parts, shown dis-assembled.

Inspired by antique tin and wooden toys, samurai warriors and mid-20th century Japanese film characters.

4 antique forged Japanese bo shuriken.

He then was introduced to Japanese Asian antique dealer Kataoka Prince.

A matched set ( daisho ) of antique Japanese ( samurai ) swords and their individual mountings ( koshirae ), katana on top and wakisashi below, Edo period.

Also in the hospital is Norris ( played by Ronald Lacey ), who is considered " scum " even by the other inmates, who had managed to con Blanco out of his only possessions: an antique silver snuff box, a Japanese wireless radio, and a musical box that played Waltzing Matilda when opened.

His Verzeichniss der japanesischen und chinesischen Münzen des kaiserlichen Münz-und Antikencabinets ( Catalog of Japanese and Chinese coins in the imperial coin and antique collections ; 1837 ) and Atlas von China nach der Aufnahme der Jesuitenmissionäre ( Atlas of China after the arrival of the Jesuit missionaries ; 1843 ) are finely executed, and deserve mention as specimens of his great liberality.

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) jutte with a wooden boshin. JPG | An antique jutte with a wooden boshin ( shaft ).

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) jutte with a hexagon boshin. JPG | An antique jutte with a hexagon boshin ( shaft ).

Image: 2 sai jutte. JPG | A matched pair of antique Japanese ( samurai ) jutte with an iron boshin ( shaft ) and two hooks kagi ( hooks ), similar to a sai, copper covered tuska ( handle ) and iron kan ( end loop ) with tassel.

Image: Kanabo tetsubo. jpg | Small antique Japanese wood club with iron covered ends and iron studs ararebo.

Image: Kanabo-tetsubo 3. JPG | Close up picture of the iron studs on an antique Japanese ararebo, a small version of the kanabo.

The Museum's collection comprises some 7, 000 items of art and crafts-paintings, prints, drawings, painted screens, textiles, antique illustrated texts, ceramics, miniature carvings ( netsuke ), lacquer and metal work, antique swords and functional art works, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, as well as a collection of modern Japanese art.

Hollywood Road is filled with trinket and antique shops of all sorts: from Chinese furniture to porcelain ware, from Buddha sculptures to Tibetan rugs, from Japanese netsukes to Coromandel screens, from Ming dynasty ceramic horsemen and kitsch Maoist memorabilia.

In antique desk forms it would have been 29 inches ( 73. 5 cm ) from the floor.

As with most antique desk forms, this trestle desk surface is usually 29 inches ( 73. 7 cm ) from the floor.

This position is usually a few inches lower than the 29 inch ( 73. 7 cm ) height of the typical antique desktop.

* an antique wooden bucket, usually with wood handle and lid, about 10 inches ( 250 mm ) high and 10 inches in diameter ( approximately cu in,, or ), formerly used to store sugar and other items.

The coin is 1. 75 inches in diameter, minted in solid brass with an antique finish.

National Challenge Coin, available for US $ 12, measures 1. 75 inches in diameter and is minted in U. S. A. from solid brass alloy with an antique finish.

Allow project to stand for about five minutes ( if wooden press mold is a good antique, do not leave clay in too long as the dampness may cause mold to crack ).

For example, the paperback editions of Cryptonomicon are over eleven hundred pages long with the novel containing various digressions, including a lengthy erotic story about antique furniture and stockings.

In initial cavalry skirmishes in France this antique weapon proved ineffective, German uhlans being " hampered by their long lances and a good many threw them away ".

All architects-in-training passed through the obligatory stages — studying antique models, constructing analos, analyses reproducing Greek or Roman models, " pocket " studies and other conventional steps — in the long competition for the few desirable places at the Académie de France à Rome ( housed in the Villa Medici ) with traditional requirements of sending at intervals the presentation drawings called envois de Rome.

Four states require licences for antique percussion revolvers and cartridge repeating firearms, but in Queensland and Victoria a person may possess such a firearm without a licence, so long as the firearm is registered ( percussion revolvers require a license in Victoria ).

Stiernhielm was the first Swedish poet to apply the verse meters of antique poets to the Swedish language, modifying their principle of long and short syllables to a principle of stressed and unstressed syllables, which better suits the phonology of Swedish, using ideas first developed by Martin Opitz and later theoretically applied to Swedish by Andreas Arvidi.

The book is long out-of-print, but is available in libraries or at antique book sellers.

In Brooklyn, the area of Atlantic nearest the South Ferry waterfront has long been known for its antique shops and its notable Arab community, including mosques, specialty shops and restaurants specializing in Middle Eastern cuisine.

In 2005, At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, California, Schaefer reported on a potential link between the long lost star catalog of Hipparchus and a sculpture called The Farnese Atlas, created in the 2nd century, and thus a potential source for antique astronomy.

His aspect is very terrible: “ He is an old man, his eyes were as red burning coals, long grey hair fell over his shoulders in matted coils, his garments, which were of antique cut, were soiled and ragged, and from his wrists and ankles hung heavy manacles and rusty gyves .”

Fortunato Pio Castellani, who had made the antique jewelry of the Etruscans and Greeks his special study, with the intention of reproducing the ancient models, found it for a long time impossible to revive this particular process of delicate soldering.

In the centre of Ticehurst there is a dry cleaner, a hairdresser, a greengrocer, a chemist, an Indian takeaway, a car salesroom, a car repairer and MOT centre, a general village shop incorporating a post office, a model shop, an estate agency, a bank ( National Westminster ), two antique furniture dealers and two pubs, the Chequers Inn & the Bell ( which reopened in November 2011 after a long period during which it was empty ), an antiquarian bookseller ( closed due to retirement ), a butcher ( currently closed ), and a cafe within Newington Court.

A fresh design by Chris Murphy ( apparently based on an unbuilt design he started at March ), it had smooth sweeping lines a world away from the long developed and antique looking 102D.

In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.

Katakana are characterized by short, straight strokes and angular corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts.

The kissaki ( point ) is not a " chisel-like " point, nor is the Western knife interpretation of a " tanto point " found on true Japanese swords ; a straight, linearly sloped point has the advantage of being easy to grind, but it bears only a superficial similarity to traditional Japanese kissaki.

Early examples of Japanese swords were straight chokutō or jōkotō and others with unusual shapes.

The word is used in the West to refer to a specific type of Japanese straight, double-edged sword no longer in common use.

In Japanese martial arts, is the act of entering straight into a technique, as opposed to the more indirect entrance into technique called tenkan.

Like other forms of traditional Japanese clothing, yukata are made with straight seams and wide sleeves.

He send a message to the Japanese that his army would " capture and exterminate your bandits, head straight for your country, and put your king in bonds ", due to consistent raiding by Japanese Wokou pirates.

In her first singles match since the 2011 US Open, Williams defeated Japanese veteran, Kimiko Date-Krumm in straight sets in the first round of Miami.

or Marcus Island is an isolated Japanese coral atoll in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, located some SE of former Tokyo City and east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the Ogasawara Islands, and nearly on a straight line between mainland Tokyo and US ' Wake Island, which is east southeast.

is a traditional style of stand-up comedy in Japanese culture, which usually involves two performers ( manzaishi ) — a straight man ( tsukkomi ) and a funny man ( boke )— trading jokes at great speed.

For example, in Chinese, the first line of Li Po's ( called " Rihaku " by Fenollosa's Japanese informants ) poem The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter is a spare, direct juxtaposition of 5 characters that appear in Fenollosa's notes as mistress hair first cover browIn his resulting 1915 Cathay, Pound rendered this in simple English as While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead

It is similar to, but not the same as, some early Japanese swords that had kamasu kissaki (" barracuda tip "), a nearly straight edge at the tip whereas the typical " tanto point " as found in the west has a straight edge.

Japanese Zen gardens ( karesansui, dry rock gardens ) make extensive use of Karikomi ( a topiary technique of clipping shrubs and trees into large curved shapes or sculptures ) and Hako-zukuri ( shrubs clipped into boxes and straight lines ).

Hayes suggests that the typical description of the ninjatō could be due to ninja having to forge their own blades from slabs of steel or iron with the cutting edge being ground on a stone, with straight blades being easier to form than the much more refined curved traditional Japanese sword.

In foreign policy, he was a straight hardliner — he attacked the Jurchens on the northern border and Japanese pirates on the southern coast.

When done with a straight jacket hold applied at the same time, it is known as a Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex.

in 1990 – 91 and 1991 – 92, and then winning the first two championships as Verdy Kawasaki in 1993 and 1994, effectively winning four straight Japanese league titles making a total of seven overall ; the highest in the Japanese system.

Japanese gardens are not laid on straight axes, or with a single feature dominating the view.