Only a few articles ago, I published some kimono photos from Sensoji. Do you remember them? They were from the Sanja Festival. There was a dog photo too. I have many pictures left, so I decided to show more. And there is one thing I have to tell you. Did you see the picture of …
Cats, dogs and kimonos. That is what I found at Sensoji Temple. I went in the vain hope that the mikoshi would be there for the 2022 Sanja Festival. But, my dreams were dashed. I couldn’t see them anywhere. They weren’t under Kaminarimon or near Asakusa Shrine. Someone said they were only touring the local …
Why did I go hunting for kimonos at Sensoji Temple? It wasn’t my original plan. I went for the Sanja Festival’s Daigyoretsu. The website I consulted, it should have started at 1 pm. When I arrived, I discovered it would begin at 6 pm but I couldn’t wait until then. Yes, I needed something to …
In February 2020, I attended the “55th Yumi Katsura Grand Collection in Tokyo”. The venue was the prestigious Hotel Okura. It was, of course, for Yumi Katsura, one of Japan’s top fashion designers. She had been in the business for fifty-five years. As it was my first time attending such a show, I had no …
