Atsuko is in the 55 to 64 year old age group. She is single and works as an editor at a publishing company. She lives in Saitama. She wore the kimono for 7,5,3 and then again at coming of age and on her graduation. However, she did not get interested in kimono until she was…
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Chikage (Tokyo)
Chikage belongs to the 45-54 year old age group. She was born in Chiba prefecture and is living in Tokyo and working as an art director. She has been learning tea ceremony since she was a child because her mother was a friend of the tea ceremony teacher. Chikage grew up familiar with kimono since…
Kumiko (Tokyo)
Kumiko is in the 45-54 year age group. She was born and brought up in Tokyo, is single, and runs a small café and gallery. Kumiko remembers that her mother wore kimono on special occasions, such as New Year or her school graduation ceremonies. She herself had one made when she was 7 for 7,5,3,…
Tsumugi (Tokyo)
Tsumugi is in the under 35 age group. She is a housewife, who is teaching dance. She was born and grew up in Shizuoka. Her mother was a kitsuke teacher since she was 18, so she grew up doing her homework and watching people dressing in kimono. However, she really wasn’t interested in it at…
Risa (Tokyo)
Risa is in the 35-44 year old age group. She was born in Morioka city and grew up in Tokyo. She lives in Tokyo now. Although she never saw her mother in kimono in her childhood, she often listened to her stories about the beautiful and gorgeous kimono of geisha women who came to the…
Naoko (Tokyo)
Naoko belongs to the 55-64 year old age group. She is working as an English teacher in junior high school. She was born and grew up in Fukuoka prefecture and now lives in Tokyo. Her first kimono memory was wearing a yukata in a summer festival in her childhood. Her parents made a furisode for…
Mika (Tokyo)
Mika belongs 25-34 years old age group, and was born and grew up in Tokyo. Her kimono memories are 7,5,3 and wearing yukata for summer festivals. From when she was in junior high school, she was interested in Japanese items. She walked around at junior high school with a folding fan in her chest pocket….
Tomomi (Tokyo)
Tomomi came to Tokyo from Kagoshima in Kyushu, for work, after doing graduate studies in Hiroshima. Her only memories of being dressed in kimono are 7,5,3 and coming of age. She doesn’t remember her family wearing kimono, but her grandmother sewed them. She remembers that when she started to wear kimono, when she was a…
Tamaki (Tokyo)
Tamaki is in the over 65 age group and was born in the Tokyo area. She has two grown up children, and has recently lost her husband. As a child she wore kimono for the usual ceremonies, 7,5,3 and for coming of age. She also wore a yukata for festivals. After marriage she wore a…
Nodoka (Tokyo)
Nodoka was born and raised in Tokyo. She is in the 35 to 44 year age group. She studied graphic design at university and she was always interested in the 1920s and 30s art nouveau and art deco eras. One day she saw a picture of someone wearing an antique meisen kimono in a magazine,…
Yukiko (Saitama)
YUKIKO’S PROFILE プロフィール Yukiko belongs 35-44 year old age group, and was born and grew up in Tokyo and she lives in Saitama now. Her grandmother was a hairdresser, so she dressed in kimono and made up her hair for Yukiko for the 7,5,3 celebration when she was 7 years old. She was happy but…
Hitomi (Saitama)
Hitomi was born and grew up in Hokkaido. She came to Tokyo after graduating high school to do office work. She soon met her husband and they set up home near Tokyo. She has lived here in Tokyo ever since. Her mother liked kimono, but they were poor, so kimono were really special and were…
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