If you are in Tokyo, I highly recommend this exhibition on Meisen kimono at the Yayoi Museum, which is also a terribly fun small museum and connected to the Yumeji Museum next door.＊Link to exhibition：https://www.yayoi-yumeji-museum.jp/yayoi/exhibiti

KAINOSHO Tadaoto: Crossing Boundaries in Nihonga, Theater and Film 2023.07.1 sat. - 08.27 sun. Tokyo Station Gallery As a Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter, Kainosho Tadaoto (1894-1978) was active in Kyoto during the Taisho (1912-1926) and early Showa

Planning “O’hanami Coordinate” for Open Campus lecture on 2023-03-25

@Bunkyo Campus (Seminar Class)#LiveImitatingArtKiyokata Kaburaki (鏑木清方) Exhibition:https://kiyokata2022.jp/?fbclid=IwAR3Pvy-cynkkW6ihkB3siOseSUFyfRPpuJPbycAZrR7AC_QbbtHYKnDvY9YKiyokata Kaburaki (鏑木 清方, Kaburaki Kiyokata, August 31, 1

The correspondance between the Tokyo Olympics 2020 2021 and the spike in COVID-19 cases in Tokyo, you be the judge.The Tokyo Olympics were held between 23 July and 8 August 2021.The Summer Paralympics were held between 24 August and 5 September 202

Now that the University is mostly back to live @university classes, I'm also back to being in kimono more often since I actually have to leave my house. (At home, I wear samue 作務衣 (kimono jacket&trousers work clothes).11/07 (SUN) @ Bunkyo Campus, for

Back by popular demand....(Click images to enlarge)

10/29 (FRI) @ Neighborhood 10/28 (THU) @ Bunkyo Campus 10/27 (WED) @ Bunkyo Campus (computer work) 10/21 (THU) @ Bunkyo Campus (Same kimono and obi as on Monday, see the diference)10/18 (MON) @ Funeral 10/16 (SAT) @ Bunkyo Camp

@ Atomi University (Bunkyo Campus) 7/24-8/1, 2021This was the project I mentioned here (Kimono Display Ideas for Student Project)The seminar students wrote the wall texts explaining the motifs and the images. All the kimono and accessories are mine, a

It's only June, and I'm ready for summer, but the Japanese semester runs through July, and Tokyo is still in lockdown until the 20th.IN the meantime, I'm apparently "All about the kingyo (goldfish), all about the kingyo..."Speaking of going out

This "Little Disapproving Sensei" never fails to cheer me up during the travails of COVID and Tokyo lockdown. I imagine Rilakkuma in this garb scolding students: “Just you listen up here,” (adjusts obi), “You best get your act together, and I mean righ

The major event/holiday of March is Doll's Day on 3/3, the origins of which are maybe not what you might suspect. Traditionally, it was a day of purification to cleanse impurities and ward off the consequneces of any possible defilements, called "kegare-h

I decided to put all these yellow kimono coordinates in one independent post.I actually do not like yellow, I don't hate it as much as orange but still, so coordinating yellow kimono into my personal style is a challenge for me.Yellow Kimono Coordinate

My Local Izakaya (i.e. Karen's Cheers)The motto on the side of their matchbox:The sake good, and the food is good, if you drink even better. Zashiki (small tatami room for parties) available on the 2nd FL.Various Coordinate Ideas for Green Stripe A

2/24 (Wed) @ NiizaTsubaki (Camellia) Tsumugi and Tsubaki Synthetic Hassun (8-sun width) obi2/22 (Mon) Tsubaki (Camellia) & Tsubaki Hassun (8-sun width) obiThis kimono was supposed to be tailored as a dōnuki, but the idiot shop (more than the tail

1/30 (Sat) @ Homesewing new sleeves on worn-out hada-juban1/29 (Fri) @ Neighborhood(cheating by wearing only half of tsukuri-obi)1/20 (Wed) @ Niiza (office)Purple Nishijin Tsumugi Kimono(one of my first kimono bought, many, many years ago no