May 5th is a national holiday in Japan called “Children’s Day”. Originally called “Tango no Sekku”（端午の節句）, it was the festival day for boys. On the other hand, March 3rd is the festival day for girls.... Read More | Share it now!
There are formal and casual clothes. In some times, it was required as a rule rather than as common sense. Especially for the pre-modern upper class, such codes were very important. Rather than economic disparity, the difference in status became the... Read More | Share it now!
In the middle of the 19th century, the Tokugawa shogunate was over, and samurai training, such as swords, to be mastered, or “Budo”, was reorganized into a modern sport. I would like to introduce the “kendo” and the... Read More | Share it now!
Even after the era of Samurai, the formal style of men has not changed the code of wearing hakama on kimonos with family crests. But currently, are there many people who wear it for the first time (and only once) at a wedding? We have picked up photos... Read More | Share it now!
The exhibition “Kimono:Kyoto to Catwalk” at the Victoria and Albert Museum(V&A) in London explains how Kimono inspired Western movie costumes and stage costumes for rock singers. David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Bjork and others have been... Read More | Share it now!