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2018年10月2日

Beautiful photos and fantastic experience!

Rating : ★★★★★ Excellent all round experience! Smooth advanced booking process with good email communication and reminders, and excellent service o n the day – from arrival to choosing kimonos, getting dressed, organising transport to and from the location and during the shoot itself. We really enjoyed our location shoot with Tetsu Wu, who made ・・・

2018年10月2日

Kimono East and West

When I was choosing a set of Kimono for a customer from Tokyo, I was nicely surprised by the customer’s preference. Her choices of Obi (帯, belt for Kimono), Obijime (帯締め, band for Obi) and Obiage (帯揚げ, sash for Obi), were so vivid and unique that I would never even think of. From old times, ・・・

2018年10月2日

Yasaka Pagoda at Hokan-ji Temple

If you take a walk around the Gion (祇園) or the Kiyomizu (清水) district, you will see the five-storied pagoda called Yasaka no toh (八坂の塔). The pagoda is within the premises of Hokan-ji (法観寺) temple founded by Shotokutaishi (聖徳太子, Prince Shotoku) in the Asuka (飛鳥) period, and had been once destroyed until it was reconstructed ・・・

2018年9月24日

Russian Cake at Murakami Kaishindo

Speaking of sweets in Kyoto, many of my readers might automatically imagine the combination of Maccha (抹茶, powdered green tea) and Wagashi (和菓子, Japanese traditional confection). However, the consumption of coffee and bread in Kyoto is outstanding in Japan, and it is not a well known fact. Surprisingly, many Kyoto homes have bread for breakfast ・・・

2018年9月18日

Compliments in Kyoto Dialect

“There is not much compliment expression in Kyoto dialect. Plus, people do not use those rare expressions anymore today.” Once I heard an elderly lady from the Muromachi (室町) district sighed. Among those rare expressions, we have “Han-nari (はんなり)” and “Koutona (こーとな)”. Both are mainly used to praise Kimono (着物) or colors. Han-nari means gorgeous ・・・