着物 Japanese costume

明朝ロンドンに戻ります。楽しいクリスマス休暇でした。この冬休みの最後を飾るのは・・・たくさんの着物！
I am leaving for London tomorrow morning. I had lovely Christmas holidays. At the finale, I could see various of KIMONOs!






























１番下右端は浴衣の総絞り・・・ぜいたく。The bottom of the right hand side is YUKATA, a casual cotton kimono yet dried in the very complicated way called SO-SHIBORI.









帯 OBI, a sash

そして、これは宝物、加賀友禅。京友禅との大きな違いは、葉っぱに虫食いもあること。虫のいる自然を、そのまま美しいと見ているようで、そこが素適です。This is my treasure, Kaga Yu-zen. Yu-zen is hand painted Kimono and Kyoto, the old capital, is the famous place for it. But Kaga, the old city faced to the sea of Japan, produces yu-zen with painting the worm-eaten leaves. It means that they see the beauty  in real nature.






今回は、着物を１枚ロンドンに持って行きます。
This time I will take a kimono with me to London!