18/07/2008
Since my blog is forbidden to talk about ballet, I decided now, do not tell you anything about the wonderful day I spent yesterday, according to one of the Kamakura most popular dance companies in the world in which a dear friend dance solo.
morning you go hunting for used kimono, a bargain for us because with a few Western women tens of euro you can buy something that is worth thousands! It seems that Japanese women do you do custom silk kimono for special occasions and given away after a while. A kimono used for them has no value or maybe just those who can not afford to be in these new stores to buy one second hand.
There are several such places around the city but I have the address of the most interesting which I had arrived seven years ago after a thorough tour. The wife of
giapu which is a city near Tokyo offered to accompany me. It will be a day for women, devoted to shopping and visiting museums. Eventually they join men too (this affects the history of the kimono too!) but already has problems Shinagawa our guide to understand what we need to get off the metro station. I remember him but courtesy requires me to do to her. The feeling? As if one of you should say to a foreigner, "I'll take you around Rome!" but lived in Udine and have been to Rome twice in a school trip, a long time ago ...
Found that we finally get to Uguisudani climb on the train. I have a business card with the address, you out take a long road and we arrive to a block that should be that of the store. Our friend stops look at the business card as an oracle, she looks at me and asks me if I was here. I do not seem the right place and she decides to walk into a store Shoe to ask. Out much mortified, saying that the store is gone for many years ... but how many years, may have closed after a group of Italian robbing him in 2001!
very disappointed and a bit desperate on how to spend the rest of the morning we head back to the station when suddenly the little man's shoe store that comes out of his shop and ran after us: busy busy talking with our interpreter, who nods at least twenty times, then another twenty bows and tells us that the man told her that yes the store has closed but reopened a long time ago ... ... just a block down where it was in 2001. Without being asked too many questions we take the right path and we finally reach a place that I recognize immediately after the house with green roof water.
Let your shoes when you enter the small room a long, narrow, left and right high shelves where kimono are sorted by price and color. At the center of a long wooden table on which the commission rearranges everything we pull out in seconds. Here are the kimono up to one thousand yen (six euro and fifty!). It immediately grabs a pair of lilac silk, and a short one with red flowers and blue on an ivory background ... could you make this a dress!
Change area, here are more expensive kimono, up to ten thousand yen, income from the ceremony, blacks with colorful designs, from traditional marriage. There are beautiful but I already have one so that I could never wear if not at home, singing One fine day we'll see playback in front of the mirror!
The contract makes me feel a beautiful purple silk with pastel fiorelloni of sleeves and bottom. It 's a kimono with long sleeves long girlfriend but the only girls can wear up to twenty years. This is new and costs more than seven hundred euro. Reluctantly me to take off and return to the shelves where I can find a cheap emerald green with gold daisies, and a few all blacks to take as souvenirs.
Our friend wants to buy me know about them all but basically do not understand all this passion for a style of dress that we are not guesses anything! In fact I did not explain it myself, maybe I see something I can not play much, but when around a metropolis like Tokyo I see girls and women in kimono I am always fascinated. And 'quite common for young blonde with the white eye shadow, a day out in miniskirts and platform shoes and another in the foot with the kimono wooden geta. About geta I bought a pair, you walk really well and now you are a little way from geisha! It is high wooden thongs that you wear with casual kimono that is to say the Yucata , that of cotton. Just consider are those that often have to walk in Japanese cartoons, the kind of ceremony is higher, has the entire wedge and is called tabi or zori. The band that binds life obi, vary in complexity depending on the occasion. I bought a simple but still have not figured out how it binds, too complicated!
We leave all very happy and full of bags, our friend asks us to dine with the Seibu department store in Ikebukuro, possibly with a nice plate of spaghetti! Aaaaaah ... as riufiutare? It would be too rude to say that we prefer a kaiten sushi market Ueno ... So go for spaghetti, also good for another, then ride from Seibu, another round of Tokyu Hand if shiatsu massage then ... dall'omino, this time even more in crisis because besides not having booked we arrive at four! Today there is also his assistant, organize and very worried about you begin to treat each round. Unforgettable massage, I go out there like new and with the conviction that they must kidnap the man and put it in your suitcase! A curiosity: in Japan, shiatsu massages are made without taking off your clothes, you cover with a cloth so that the massage therapist's hands may never have direct contact with the skin of the body. I do not know if it is a form of modesty or whatever, but the result is still fantastic.
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