Japanese Language Services

21/06/2016

If you live on the Gold Coast, here's a fabulous Wadaiko event to raise funds for victims of the Kumamoto Earthquake.
2:30pm, Saturday 16 July

20/06/2016

AUTUMN IS A GREAT TIME TO VISIT KYOTO!

The beautiful autumn leaves at Kyoto's estimated 2000 shrines and temples are a visual feast in the months of October and November.

And when in Kyoto, stay at a fully renovated, traditional machiya-style house across the road from Nijo Castle!



https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/5243595

House in Kamigyo-ku, Japan. A traditional Machiya-style house in a quiet laneway only seconds from Nijo Castle, in central Kyoto. A cosy, two-storey (whole) house has all the features of a traditional Kyoto Machiya-style house (with tatami mats, shoji screen doors and expos...

08/09/2014

Beaded clutch bag, 1950s.
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01/09/2014

Red patterned silk kimono with hand painted roses (detail), 1920s.
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24/08/2014

Brown silk kimono with white embroidered rose (detail), 1920s.
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17/08/2014

Obi-ita (obi stiffener), detail, 1920s.
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11/08/2014

Narrow pink silk obi with rose pattern 1950s

08/08/2014

Embroidered rose and pine tree on orange silk, kimono fabric, 1920s.
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21/07/2014

Magazine illustration of woman applying makeup, artist unknown, 1920s.
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13/07/2014

Purple and gold kikko (turtle) pattern, 1920s.
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07/07/2014

Narrow heavy silk obi with black gradation stripe and baby pink brocade butterfly pattern 1920s