2018-06-27 (Wed) @ Niiza
Asagao (Morning Glory) Nagoya obi, Ojiya 小千谷 ramie summer kimono
What I had planned to wear, but due to rain ...
What I really wore.
Same As… Read More
2018-07-11 (Wed) @ Niiza2018-07-10 (Tue) @ Niiza2018-07-09 (Mon) for Tea Lesson
Sensei said we could wear yukata, but this yukata was hotter than kimono Read More
2018-07-07 (Sat) @ Fooling around after class2018-07-06 (Fri) @ Niiza2018-07-04 (Wed) @ Neighborhood
(Too gaudy to wear outside the house again!)2018-07-03 (Tue) @ Niiza2018-07-02 (Mon) for… Read More
2018-07-29 (Sun) @ Open Campus BukyoSo I gave a talk on Edo period kimono, but dressed Taisho style, oops.2018-07-28 (Sat) @ Neighborhood2018-07-27 (Fri) @ Neighborhood2018-07-26 (Thu) @ Nei… Read More
2018-08-04 (Sat) @ Neighborhood2018-08-03 (Fri) @ Neighborhood2018-08-02 (Thu) @ Niiza
Went to Niiza campus, to pick up paperwork and do some grading, thought I would die in my office, went… Read More
2018-09-07 (Fri) @ Neighborhood 2018-09-06 (Thu) @ Neighborhood 2018-09-05 (Wed) @ Niiza2018-09-04 (Tue) @ Neighborhood 2018-09-03 (Mon) @ Niiza
And University work starts up again...
But t… Read More
2018-09-22 (Sat) @ Neighborhood 2018-09-21 (Fri) @ Neighborhood2018-09-20 (Thu) @ Niiza Camus and then Foujita: A Retrospective ― Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his Death2018-09… Read More
2018-09-15 (Sat) @ Blogged Echigo Tsumari Art-Field Trip, changed clothes and went out for the evening2018-09-15 (Sat) @ Train to home2018-Sep-13-15 (Thu-Sat) @ Echigo Tsumari Art-Field Tri… Read More
2018-10-09 (Tue) @ Bunkyo For my class "Special Studies in Material Culture Communication: Kimono Communication," I am wearing the "Owlish-Cat" obi every Tuesday in honor of Halloween, so th… Read More
2018-10-01 (Mon) @ Tea Still too hot for fall hitoe (unlined kimono), so I am wearing an not-obviously-transparent hitoe to deal with the heat. The purpose of my wearing a haori (kimono jack… Read More
2018-10-28 (Sun) @ Bunkyo (to make pdf for student)2018-10-27 (Sat) @ Bunkyo2018-10-26 (Fri) @ Niiza2018-10-25 (Thu) @ Home
Old snood scarf, upper and lower left, opened and lined to make sh… Read More
2018-11-30 (Fri) @ Niiza2018-11-28 (Wed) @ Hospital, Asakusa, Torihachi
(Was in Western clothes, the kimono pic is from a few years ago)2018-11-27 (Tue) @ Bunkyo2018-11-26 (Mon) @ Tea Lesson… Read More
2018-12-20 (Thu) @ Hair Permed and Off to NJ for the Holidays!2018-12-19 (Wed) @ Niiza2018-12-18 (Tue) @ BunkyoObi Motifs for Kimono Communication Class2018-12-17 (Mon) @ Neighborhood
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2018-12-15 (Sat) @ Bunkyo
Sheila Cliffe Demonstrated making kimono from (paper) tanmono (kimono bolt)AF's design2018-12-12 (Wed) @ Niiza
(In great pain, went to hospital next day)2018-12-11… Read More
2019-1-26 (Sat) @ Bunkyo2019-1-25 (Fri) @ Niiza2019-1-23 (Wed) @ Niiza2019-1-22 (Tue) @ Bunkyo2019-1-21 (Mon) @ Tea
(The day I split the back seam on this kimono. It is now at the kimono sho… Read More
2019-2-15 (Fri) @ Bunkyo --to-- NiizaI rather like how the stripes in the obi just happened to match the stripes in the kimono.2019-2-14 (Thu) @ Neighborhood (Valentine's)2019-2-11 (Mon) @ T… Read More
2019-2-9 (Sat) @ Neighborhood2019-2-8 (Fri) @ NiizaSame kimono and obi as 2019-2-5 (Tue) below, but different abi-age sash and obijime cord; here light blue and below yellow. 2019-2-7 (Thu)… Read More
2019-5-17 (Fri) @ Niiza (Intro to Research: モノ学コミ material culture comunication)2019-5-16 (Thu) @ Bunkyo: Japanese Religious Art (Asuka-Hakuhō… Read More
2019-5-11 (Sat) @ Bunkyo (Zemi Ia: Kimono Library; Zemi IIa: Google survey)2019-5-10 (Fri) @ Niiza (Intro to Research モノ学コミ: Motif Communication … Read More
2019-5-25 (Sat) @ Bunkyo: 3rd & 4th year seminars 2019-5-24 (Fri) @ TNM: Japanese Religious Art (Kūkai & Tōji Exhibition)
(actually in very light awase kimono)
Giorgio Ar… Read More
2019-6-29 (Sat) @ Bunkyo: 3rd & 4th year seminars 2019-6-28 (Fri) @ Niiza: Intro to Research (Scholarly Reading)
(Wore grey haori so I wouldn't get my kimono sleeves in my students' fac… Read More
2019-6-23 (Sun) @ ???
(What on earth did I do that was so fancy-pants?!)
I remembered, Open Campus @ Bunkyo2019-6-22 (Sat) @ Bunkyo: 3rd year seminar -- Yukata Dressing 2019-6-21 (Fri) @ Nii… Read More
2019-6-16 (Sun) @ International Ukiyo-e Symposium2019-6-15 (Sat) @ Bunkyo: 3rd and 4th year seminar 2019-6-14 (Fri) @ Wake for friend 2019-6-13 (Thu) @ Bunkyo: Japanese Religious Art 2019-6… Read More
2019-9-27 (Fri) @ Niiza
Omiya chijimi, really just too hot for anything else.2019-9-26 (Thu) @ Bunkyo
I'm not sure, but likely an Ojiya chijimi kimono2019-9-25 (Wed) @ Niiza
Still too hot to… Read More
2019-10-19 (SAT) @ Bunkyo to Asakusa2019-10-19 (SAT), 10-18 (Fri), 10-17 (Thu) -- (Left to right)2019-10-16 (Wed) @ Home
At home with the plague2019-10-16 (Wed) @ Home
Considering obi option… Read More
Week 3
・2020-01-18 (Sat): Center Shiken (National Exams) @ Niiza, upper right
・2020-01-16 (Thu): Kimono Communication class @ Bunkyo, lower left (went to Niiza in AM)
・2… Read More
2019-11-29 (Fri) @ Niiza2019-11-28 (Thu) @ Bunkyo2019-11-27 (Wed) @ Niiza2019-11-25 (Mon) @ Home afer Tea2019-11-23 (Sat) @ Home
Before and after obiage mess
Moved kimono to new house
Roof-l… Read More
Of late, I've been forgetting to take kimono pics, but this is what I have.2020-2-27 (Thu) @ Niiza
Stripe black Ōshima & Black shibori haori2020-2-22 (Sat) @ Niiza
Edo komon & … Read More
2020-03-13 (Fri) @ Niiza (meetings)2020-03-03 (Tue) @ Home and Out&AboutQuote below from Ariyoshi Sawako's novel Shiba-zakura (book 2), published in 1970.御召 に ಉ… Read More
1/30 (Sat) @ Home
sewing new sleeves on worn-out hada-juban1/29 (Fri) @ Neighborhood
(cheating by wearing only half of tsukuri-obi)1/20 (Wed) @ Niiza (office)
Purple Nishijin Tsumugi Kimono… Read More
I decided to put all these yellow kimono coordinates in one independent post.
I actually do not like yellow, I don't hate it as much as orange but still, so coordinating yellow kimono into m… Read More
The major event/holiday of March is Doll's Day on 3/3, the origins of which are maybe not what you might suspect. Traditionally, it was a day of purification to cleanse impurities and ward o… Read More
Now that the University is mostly back to live @university classes, I'm also back to being in kimono more often since I actually have to leave my house. (At home, I wear samue 作ࡈ… Read More
Are you looking for quality dried squid for export to Niiza Japan? you are very right to read this website.
Introducing Ihsan from Indonesia. We are a company in Indonesia which is well-k… Read More