Posts Tagged ‘kimono’
Kimonos at the Japanese Garden
Hayleigh and her new amazing DS that takes pictures!
Red Japanese maple leaves
My close friend Hayleigh, with her host sisters. Her host mother invited me to dress up in kimono and take pictures at a Japanese garden in Koshigaya.
Cheesu!~
More leaves! I gathered a bunch of them to dry in my travel journal 
Hayleigh-chan~
Hayleigh's host family being adoreable
YELLOW!
Kimono covered bottoms.
the Garden was just gorgeous
Me.
I just finished a ten page history paper. Tomorrow is my last day of work and of school. Two weeks from now, Ieave Japan. To go home, that is. Crazy.
七五三 – A Celebration of Children
Today, my younger host sister, Mayuko celebrated her shichi-go-san. Shichi-go-san, which literally means, seven, five, three is a holiday of sorts for children whose ages are seven, five, and three. Girls dress up in their first grown-up kimono and boys dress up in their hakuma. The festival itself is meant to bring longevity and good luck to the children celebrating it.
Mayuko looked like a tiny Christmas tree ^__^
Three generations
Mayuko-chan getting fixed up a bit
My host mom, Mayu-chan, great-grandmother, and Mii-chan
Little girl posing for pictures
Everyone was a photog today
More pictures, more posing
Detail of Mayu-chan's kimono. It was gorgeous!
Piggy back ride!
Mayuko reads her fortune
