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What I love about Tokyo: the deliberate, considered and thoughtful art direction of everything; how a smiley face is placed anywhere and everywhere; their weird and wacky subversive love of costumes...even for cats; the juxtaposition of traditional and modernity; the extraordinary bookstores that stock books about the most random subjects, like used soap; the beautiful, warm, generous people, especially @maiko_tsunemine, my dear friend and fellow Sacai lover, Coke Zero drinker and constant fashion enabler. ❤️ xx #tokyo #ilovetokyo #japan #japanophile #wanderlust #thetraveler #theeyehastotravel #travelgram #traveldiary #culturevulture #homeiswheretheartis ##thisiswhy #globalcitizen #helloworld
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明けましておめでとうございます。
(akemashite omedetō gozaimasu)
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May the New year days be as bright as the sunshine & as calm as the moonlight. Have a wonderful year ahead! Wishing u all a very Happy New Year 2⃣0⃣1⃣9⃣
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The Japanese New Year (正月Shōgatsu) starts with various customs and traditions associated with bringing in the New Year.
They include: Oosouji (deep cleaning), eating traditional new year's food , otoshidama (money given to children on new year's eve), postcards, Fukubukuro (surprise bags) , Hatsumode (visiting Shrine with family), Hatsuhinode (watching the first sunrise of the brand new year), Joya no Kane (ringing new year's eve bell). And decorations like: Kadomatsu (gate pine), Shime-nawa (enclosing ropes), Shime- kazari, kagami mochi (rice cakes) & many more beautiful decorations.
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This is an example of what a kimono looks like. I have given this subject a great deal of thought today, and after discussing the issue with fellow kimono loving friends (both Japanese & non-Japanese) I would like to add my voice to those of many other kimono lovers from Japan & around the world, to make clear my personal stance on kimono and the appropriation of that word by a non-Japanese person for her own financial gain.
As some of you may know I am a final year Masters student at SOAS in London. I’m currently working on my MA dissertation on kimono, in particular, kimono “in the West”. Kimono may be one of the most misused words in the fashion world. However, what it most definitely is not, nor has it ever been, is shape-wear, the kind of garment that @KimKardashian is trying to sell under the Kimono name. Just because the word happens to have the same three letters of her name in it, does not give her license to appropriate for her own financial gain, this word has been in use since the Meiji Period (1868-1912) specifically to describe traditional Japanese garments.
Author Bernard Rudofsky described the kimono as “a window into Japanese culture for the Western world”. Ki mono literally means “a thing to wear”; the word kimono is derived from its precursor kosode. Kimono is now perceived as Japan’s traditional costume, but prior to the arrival of Western clothing in the late 19th century it used to be everyday dress for both men and women. It is a culturally specific word, used to describe Japan’s National Dress, which has been inspiring Western designers and artists since it first arrived in Europe in 1639. Some of these early examples are still preserved in Dutch museums. This essay continues in the comments section.