Miki (Tokyo)

PROFILE プロフィール Miki belongs to the 45-54 year old age group. She is married and is living in Tokyo with four cats. She is an office worker. She was dressed in kimono by her family members on new year days in her childhood. As she grew up, she learned to wear yukata by herself but…

Hiromi (Saitama)

PROFILE プロフィール Hiromi belongs to the 45-54 age group. She is married with one child. She was born and grew up in Osaka and moved to Kantou area when she was 21. She is an illustrator and a writer, and recently writes popular books about Buddhism. Her kimono wearing is related to her activities with this…

Yukiko (Tokyo)

PROFILE プロフィール Yukiko is living in in Tokyo, belongs to the 45-54 age group and is married. She is an office worker and also volunteers as a guide in a huge botanical garden. As she does her guiding wearing kimono, foreign guests really like it, and this influences the Japanese guests. From childhood she was…

Kuniko (Tokyo)

Kuniko belongs to the 45-54 age group and was born and brought up in Tokyo. She has experience of living, learning and exchanging culture abroad, and in order to use that experience she works as a cultural coordinator, introducing Japanese culture to non-Japanese who visit or live in Japan. From when she was a child…

Emi (Saitama)

Emi is a housewife with two small children. She is in the 35-44 year old age group. She started wearing kimono 16 years ago, when she was 21 and went into a kimono store to buy yukata underwear. She was shown some kimono and then she liked and ordered one. She was a single working…