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Romantic modern kimono with soft and fluffy yaezakura (double petal cherry blossom)

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Powerful colors and patterns for this outfit, mixing bamboo and a jumping carp for auspicious overtone

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Fantastic mokuren (magnolia) themed seasonal antique outfit

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Woman Holding a Tortoise-shell Hair-comb, 1790

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Fantastic kagura suzu (instrument used in kagura dance) and noh fan obi, with beautiful embroidery work and gold thread couching.

The bell and fan are probably a nod to the auspicious noh dance Sanbasô praying for bountiful harvests. Here are powerful modern performances:

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Brisk cool tones for this outfit, pairing a nicely textured shibori kimono with hanabishi (diamond flower) pattern, with rabbits on the waves (= a way of depicting seafoam) obi.

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Amazing checkered furisode, woven by Tomy from Toito fabric. This pattern with wide checks is named Benkei-jima (from this famous folk hero) and was super popular during Edo period. It’s so great to see ancient pattern being updated!

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Sally: So with a flu shot, you can expect soreness in your arm for a few hours.

Heero: Right.

Sally: The actual shot will only feel like a brief prick.

Heero: Okay.

Sally: So there shouldn’t be any reason to scream.

Duo: Well, excuse me for screaming when someone stabs a needle in my best friend!

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Soothing earthy tones for this modern yukata depicting tsuta (ivy). I love the geometrical obi and the hôzuki (ground cherry) chosen to compliment this outfit!

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ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IRON MAN 2 - dir. Jon Favreau

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Chic and demure early autumn outfit, featuring a soothing grey summer weave kimono, paired with this amazing obi depicting a serene autumn scenery (with Chinese bellflowers up front, and in the back a garden with maple, clover, pampa grass, pinks…).

I received an anonymous ask wondering how to easily tell sha from ro weave appart. Ro fabrics have a kind of see-through ladder pattern as you can see below ;)

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Back when Covid lockdowns first stared and I had to WFH, I decided to dress up for work to cheer myself up. I did a full week of yukata! Some of them were only put on for a few minutes before I had to dress in proper work clothes for meetings, but it was still fun! And I also got to try out new coordinates for old yukata, so that was great!

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Sleek early autumn outfit, with a dynamic kimono paired with an obi depicting fiery ginkgo leaves over dewy grass.

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Soothing summer outfit, featuring a quiet yukata (worn like a kimono) with blooming asagao (morning glory), worn with lovely obi in hushed grey ombre.

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Fantastic yuuzen dyed haori by Taiyoukyo titled “Wandering deep in the mountains”. The beautiful turning maple leaves pattern is drawn over a cherry blossoms woven ground, in a motif paring traditionally named unkin (=“cloud and brocade”).