After no doubt attending a Coming of Age Day (æˆäººã®æ—¥ Seijin no Hi) ceremony of some kind or another, this young woman waits patiently to head off down the tracks and begin to do the things that adults do.
The dawning prospect of which is understandably not something to smile about.
triskin says
how lovely and beautiful the kimono is!
my university have ever told me that kimono is very expensive.
someone but is , someone rent it.
Lee says
This is a particular kind of kimono too, so I’d guess the vast majority are rented.
Kafkaesque! says
Wouldn’t it be great, if it was normal for girls/women in the West to wear such beautiful kimonos? Is our beauty defined by Gucci and Prada etc?
ait_meijin says
For some reason western girls wearing kimono hardly ever look as good as japanese women do.
Eric says
This is a great picture–nice contrast of old and new.
I always find it ironic though when I see women walking around in kimono (which is not such an unusual sight even when it’s not Coming of Age Day; it’s not so strange to see middle-aged women on their way to a tea ceremony lesson or wedding clad in kimono) because of a certain myth that the Japanese news media have propagated, and which almost all Japanese have swallowed hook, line and sinker: the idea that foreigners think that the Japanese still traipse around in kimono, topknots, and with a katana or two on their hips. What I find ironic is that, not only does no foreigner think that, the Japanese do in fact still wear kimono. If you include yukata in the equation, then quite a large number of Japanese women still sometimes wear kimono.