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2019年1月4日

Hatsumode, Visiting Shrine during New Year Holiday

The most popular shrine for Hatsumode (初詣, visiting a shrine or a temple during the New Year holiday) in Kyoto is Fushimi Inari Taisha (伏見稲荷大社), the head shrine of thirty thousands of Inari (稲荷) shrines in Japan, founded in 711 A.D. Perhaps, many of you have heard of its famous Senbon-torii (千本鳥居, an archway made ・・・

2019年1月4日

Iromuji (Plain) Kimono

Happy New Year, everybody! I guess many of you enjoyed wearing Haregi (晴れ着) during the New Year’s holidays! Haregi is a term for gorgeous Kimono (着物) worn on Harenohi (ハレのの日, a day of special occasion). In the dictionary, Harenohi is defined as an antonym for Kenohi (ケの日, a day with nothing special). Generally, Haregi means ・・・

2019年1月2日

Yumeyakata sponsored kimono to Hey!Say!JUMP

Yumeyakata sponsored kimono to Hey!Say!JUMP for the magazine “POPORO”(ポポロ) published on 1st Feb 2019. As this is a special of New Year’s, Hey! Say! Jay shared the time of eating rice cake and playing caruta(A card game in Japan).Member Kota Yabu藪 宏太, Chinen Yuri知念 侑李, Daiki Arioka有岡 大貴 and Yuya Takagi高木 雄也 worn a white ・・・

2018年12月30日

New Year Preparations at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine

Kitano Tenmansu (北野天満宮) is a shrine to the god of learning, Sir Sugawara Michizane (菅原道真), and is very crowded with visitors especially during the New Year’s holiday season. In my childhood, my parents often took me there, especially at the time of my entrance examinations. In the premises, there are a lot of statues of ・・・

2018年12月29日

Kappogi, a Coat over Kimono for Domestic Works

The year end is getting close and my readers must have been doing very busy in preparation for welcoming the New Year. In this busy time of the year, I always think of Kappogi (割烹着), a Japanese coat over Kimono (着物) mostly for cooking. My mother and grandmother used to wear white ones with rubber ・・・