Sunaho belongs to the 35-44 age group. She is single and works as a bodywork therapist. Her family has houses in Tokyo and Kanazawa, so she divides her time between both places. Her first encounter with kimono was when she bought an antique one, three years ago. She had two private lessons and now continues…
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Keiko (Tokyo)
Keiko is in the 45-54 year old age group and is married with one child and a dog. She works part-time as an office clerk. She is learning to dress others in a kimono school and she sometimes dresses people in furisode or houmongi. She wears kimono to fancy parties, events, ceremonies and also she…
Harumi – Influences 影響
I was born in the 1960s in Tohoku, in north east Japan, and it was common that my grandmother regularly wore kimono and my mother wore it for ceremonies. I remember being happy to be asked to wear it on New Year’s day from when I was five years old. Each year they asked me…
Tansu Biraki – Aunt of Furukawa Kazuhide
These are two photographs from the tansu biraki
The Kimono Closet 